Bathyergus
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| Bathyergus Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene to Recent | |
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| Bathyergus janetta | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Hystricomorpha |
| Family: | Bathyergidae |
| Subfamily: | Bathyerginae |
| Genus: | Bathyergus Illiger, 1811 |
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Bathyergus janetta | |
Bathyergus is the genus of dune mole rats endemic to South Africa. It contains two species — B. janetta, the Namaqua Dune Mole Rat, and B. suillus, the Cape Dune Mole Rat.
References
- Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. pp 1538–1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
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