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Dune Molerats
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Dune Molerats

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.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Cape Dune Molerat

speciesBathyergus suillus

Namaqua Dune Molerat

speciesBathyergus janetta

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 43757.