A taxonomic group or category of animals characterized by digging or burrowing behavior.
From Latin 'fodient-' (digging) with the suffix '-ia', forming a plural or collective noun for a class of organisms with similar habits.
This term represents the older Linnaean classification system where animals were grouped by lifestyle rather than evolutionary relationship—modern science has abandoned such groupings but the word survives in historical texts.
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