Hyracoidea (order)

Members of the order containing six species in one family. Living members are primitive hoofed herbivorous mammals of the family Procaviidae, the only surviving members of the order Hyracoidea, being small thickset, herbivorous quadrupeds, about the size of a large domestic rabbit, similar to guinea pigs in appearance, with tusk-like incisor teeth, and native Africa and the Middle East.