Bathyergus
Genus of rodents
Bathyergus Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene to Recent | |
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Bathyergus janetta | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Bathyergidae |
Genus: | Bathyergus Illiger, 1811 |
Type species | |
Mus maritimus Gmelin, 1788 | |
Species | |
Bathyergus janetta |
Bathyergus is the genus of dune mole-rats endemic to South Africa. It contains two species :
- Namaqua dune mole-rat - B. janetta
- Cape dune mole-rat - B. suillus
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Extant species of family Bathyergidae (African mole-rats)
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Rodentia
- Suborder: Hystricomorpha
- Infraorder: Hystricognathi
- Parvorder: Phiomorpha
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