See text The Pedetidae are a family of rodents.

[4][5][6][7][8][9] The two living species, the springhares, are distributed throughout much of southern Africa and also around Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

[11] Together with the anomalures and zenkerella, Pedetidae forms the suborder Anomaluromorpha.

[11] The family includes one living genus and four extinct genera.

The Asian fossil Diatomys was previously included,[11] but is now classified in the family Diatomyidae with the Laotian rock rat.