Bathyergus

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.

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

Bathyergus janetta
Bathyergus suillus

References


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