Rhizomys Cannomys Tachyoryctes The rodent subfamily Rhizomyinae includes the Asian bamboo rats and certain of the African mole-rats.

The subfamily is grouped with the Spalacinae and the Myospalacinae into a family of fossorial muroid rodents basal to the other Muroidea.

[citation needed] All the rhizomyines are bulky, slow-moving, burrowing animals, the Rhizomys species being the largest and stockiest.

They mainly feed on the underground parts of plants, which they reach from foraging burrows.

They are rarely active above ground, and if they do come out of their extensive burrow systems, it is at twilight or during the night.