Middle East Blind Mole Rat

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Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Spalacidae
Genus:	Spalax
Species:	S. ehrenbergi

Binomial name

Spalax ehrenbergi
(Nehring, 1898)

The Middle East Blind Mole Rat or Palestine Mole Rat (Spalax ehrenbergi) is a species of rodent in the Spalacidae family. It it found in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and possibly Turkey. Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Soil mounds of the Palestine Mole Rat in a field in Karkur, Israel

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Nannospalax ehrenbergi

[edit] References

Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Schlitter, D. 2004. Nannospalax ehrenbergi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 July 2007.

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Extant species of family Spalacidae

Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Mammalia · Order: Rodentia · Suborder: Myomorpha · Superfamily: Muroidea

Myospalacinae
(Zokors)

Myospalax	M. myospalax group: False Zokor (Myospalax aspalax) · Siberian Zokor (Myospalax myospalax) M. psilurus group: Transbaikal Zokor (Myospalax psilurus)

Eospalax	Chinese Zokor (Eospalax fontanierii) · Rothschild's Zokor (Eospalax rothschildi) · Smith's Zokor (Eospalax smithii)

Rhizomyinae

Rhizomys (Bamboo rats)	Hoary Bamboo Rat (Rhizomys pruinosus) · Chinese Bamboo Rat (Rhizomys sinensis) · Large Bamboo Rat (Rhizomys sumatrensis)

Cannomys (Bamboo rats)	Lesser Bamboo Rat (Cannomys badius)

Tachyoryctes (Mole rats)	Ankole Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes ankoliae) · Mianzini Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes annectens) · Audacious Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes audax) · Demon Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes daemon) · Kenyan African Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes ibeanus) · Big-headed Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes macrocephalus) · Naivasha Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes naivashae) · King Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes rex) · Ruanda Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes ruandae) · Rudd's Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes ruddi) · Embi Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes spalacinus) · East African Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes splendens) · Storey's African Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes storeyi)