🦋 Family

Bathyergidae

5 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Mammalia › Rodentia › Bathyergidae

Cryptomys hottentotus is a fossorial Southern African burrowing rodent that lives in colonies and feeds on underground plant matter.

The common Hottentot mole-rat is a Southern African fossorial herbivorous rodent that lives in family breeding colonies.

Bathyergus suillus, the Cape dune mole-rat, is the largest blesmol, found only in South African coastal sandy habitats.

Georychus capensis, the Cape mole-rat, is a distinctive fur-patterned South African burrowing rodent with documented reproductive traits.

Heterocephalus glaber, the naked mole-rat, is an East African underground-adapted rodent with little hair and wrinkled skin.

Related Families

Sciuridae 144 species Cricetidae 53 species Muridae 30 species Heteromyidae 16 species Geomyidae 12 species Caviidae 11 species Dasyproctidae 7 species Dipodidae 6 species

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