| Cape Mole Rat Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene to Recent |
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| 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) |
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Mus capensis |
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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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