Bathyergus
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Bathyergus Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene to Recent
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Bathyergus janetta | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Bathyergidae |
Genus: | Bathyergus Illiger, 1811 |
Type species | |
Mus maritimus Gmelin, 1788
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Species | |
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.
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