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 | | In other cases, such as Lavocat's concept of the Nesomyidae, the proposed family seems little different from a random assortment of muroid subfamilies. |
 | | Their Nesomyidae include not just the paraphyletic subgroup of our African clade but also the Otomyinae, which are clearly just derived murines. |
 | | The Nesomyidae ("African mice") are defined as the most recent common ancestor of the Nesomyinae, Dendromurinae, Petromyscinae, and Mystromyinae and all of its descendants. |
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