hystricognath造句

• Several hypotheses have been proposed as to how hystricognath rodents colonized this island continent.
• Although the hystricognath rodents may have evolved from an early entodacryan ancestor in Asia, they migrated to Africa soon after.
• Hutias are the most diverse endemic Caribbean hystricognath group and the only one that still survives, although many species are extinct.
• Dawson " et al . " also refuted the notion that " Laonastes " is a hystricognath and instead argued that the mandible is sciurognathous.
• The Santa Rosa fauna also contains fossils of various unique species of marsupials and hystricognath rodents, a possible bat, and some notoungulates ( a unique extinct group of South American ungulates ).
• In fact, until the discovery of the Laotian rock rat, all modern hystricognath families were restricted to South America, Africa, or had a range that included Africa ( Hystricidae ).
• Likewise, Jenkins et al . ( 2005 ) argue that their discovery of a hystricognath rodent family ( Laonastidae ) exclusive to Asia may be further evidence for an Asian origin of caviomorphs.
• The analysis of mtDNA 12S rRNA and sequence by Jenkins " et al . " ( 2004 ) allied " Laonastes " with African hystricognath rodents, namely the blesmols and the dassie rat.
• Agoutis, members of a mainland American hystricognath genus that is also indigenous to some Caribbean islands, have also been widely introduced, resulting, among others, in the presence of the red-rumped agouti ( " Dasyprocta leporina " ) on most of the Lesser Antilles.