Cape Mole Rat

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Cape Mole Rat
Fossil range: Middle Pleistocene to Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Bathyergidae
Genus: Georychus
Illiger, 1811
Species: G. capensis
Binomial name
Georychus capensis
(Pallas, 1778)

The Cape Mole Rat (Georychus capensis) is a species of mole rat found in the southwestern and southern parts of the Cape of Good Hope Province in South Africa. It the only species in the genus Georychus.

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