''Diplothrix'' is a genus of two species of rodents in the family

Muridae The Muridae, or murids, are the largest family of rodents and of mammals, containing approximately 1,383 species, including many species of mice, rats, and gerbils found naturally throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Australia. The name Muridae comes ...

. '' Diplothrix legata'' occurs in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. '' Diplothrix yangziensis'' is known only from fossils collected in eastern China, dating to the

Early Pleistocene The Early Pleistocene is an unofficial sub-epoch in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, being the earliest division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period. It is currently estimated to span the time ...

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Rodent genera Mammal genera with one living species Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Muridae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Murinae-stub