Hyorhinomys
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Hyorhinomys stuempkei, the hog-nosed shrew rat or Sulawesi snouter, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae, more specifically in the subfamily Murinae, endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is the
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Cardiocranius
Tenerife rat restoration
Apomys gracilirostris
Rhinogradentia
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Rhinogradentia is a fictitious order of extinct shrew-like mammals invented by German zoologist Gerolf Steiner. Members of the order, known as rhinogrades or snouters, are characterized by a nose-like
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…Heru Handika, and Kevin C. Rowe. Esselstyn proposed "Sulawesi snouter" as a common name for it. The word "snouter" references the spoof biological text The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades, authored by the German zoologist Gerolf Steiner as the fictional naturalist "Harald Stümpke". H. stuempkei pays homage to this fictional individual…
A mock taxidermy of a rhinograde, using its "nasorium" to fish, at the Musée zoologique de la ville de Strasbourg.
Hopsorrhinus aureus at Museum Wiesbaden
Nasoperforator, a genus "discovered" on April Fools' Day in 2012 by the National Museum of Natural History in France.