// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did Heteropsomys say? I'm a little rodent.
| Heteropsomys Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Subfamily: | †Heteropsomyinae |
| Genus: | †Heteropsomys Anthony, 1916 |
| Type species | |
| Heteropsomys insulans Anthony, 1916 | |
| Species | |
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Heteropsomys is an extinct genus of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It contains the following species:
- Antillean cave rat (Heteropsomys antillensis)
- Insular cave rat (Heteropsomys insulans)