Sandy mole-rat

Sandy mole-rat
Reverse side of a coin showing a mole rat
Spalax arenarius on a Ukrainian coin issued in 2005
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Spalacidae
Genus: Spalax
Species: S. arenarius
Binomial name
Spalax arenarius
Reshetnik, 1939

The sandy mole-rat (Spalax arenarius) is a species of rodents in the family Spalacidae endemic to Ukraine.

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