Mole rat

Mole rat or mole-rat refers to several groups of burrowing rodents or * Bathyergidae, a family of about twenty species from Africa, including:

• Heterocephalus glaber; the "naked mole rat";
• Spalacidae, a family of about thirty species from Eurasia and northeast Africa, including:
  • Tachyoryctes, a genus of about fifteen species from Africa;
  • Blind mole rats (Spalacinae), a subfamily of about fifteen living species from southeastern Europe, southwestern Asia, and northeastern Africa;
  • Zokors (Myospalacinae), occasionally called mole rats, about eight species from central and eastern Asia.
• Nesokia indica from southern and southwestern Asia and Egypt, also known as the short-tailed mole rat;
• Bandicota bengalensis from southern Asia, also known as the Indian mole rat;
• Chelemys macronyx from southernmost South America, also known as the mountain mole-rat.