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Infraorder vs Caviomorph - What's the difference?

infraorder | caviomorph |

As nouns the difference between infraorder and caviomorph

is that infraorder is while caviomorph is any rodent of the infraorder (sometimes parvorder) caviomorpha, that unites all south american hystricognaths.

infraorder

English

Noun

(head)

    • caviomorph

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any rodent of the infraorder (sometimes parvorder) Caviomorpha, that unites all South American hystricognaths.
  • * 2003 , Sharon Lynn Vanderlip, The Guinea Pig Handbook , page 11,
    • Cavies are caviomorphs'. ' Caviomorphs are tailless South American rodents that are characterized by having one pair of mammae (teats), four digits on the forefoot, and three digits on the hind foot, as well as special anatomical features of the head and jaws.
  • * 2008 , Rebecca Stefoff, The Rodent Order , page 21,
    • Platypittamys'' was a caviomorph''' that lived in southern South America around 30 million years ago.Today ' caviomorphs are found in South America, but genetic studies show that they are descended from African rodents.
  • * 2012 , Larry G. Marshall, The Geat American Interchange—An Invasion-Induced Crisis for South American Mammals'', Matthew Nitecki (editor), ''Biotic Crises in Ecological and Evolutionary Time , page 192,
    • In beds of Deseadan age caviomorphs are represented by 6 families (9 genera), in the Santacrucian by 7 families (17 genera), and in the Hayquerian by 8 families (21 genera) (Marshall et al. In press b).