Pedetes

Springhare; Temporal range: Middle Pliocene to Recent
	South African springhare (P. capensis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Pedetidae
Genus:	Pedetes; Illiger, 1811
Type species
	Yerbua capensis;
Species
	See text

Pedetes is a genus of rodent, the springhares, in the family Pedetidae.^[3] Members of the genus are distributed across southern and Eastern Africa.

^ McKenna, M.C. and Bell, S.K. 1997. Classification of Mammals: Above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press, 631 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6 (p. 185)
^ "Fossilworks: Pedetes". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

[1] McKenna, M.C. and Bell, S.K. 1997. Classification of Mammals: Above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press, 631 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6 (p. 185)

[2] "Fossilworks: Pedetes". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

[3] Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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Springhare Temporal range: Middle Pliocene to Recent^[1]^[2]

South African springhare (P. capensis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Pedetidae
Genus:	Pedetes Illiger, 1811
Type species
Yerbua capensis
Species
See text