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The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), also known as the sand puppy, [6] is a burrowing rodent native to the Horn of Africa and parts of Kenya, notably in Somali regions. It is closely related to the blesmols and is the only species in the genus Heterocephalus .
naked mole-rat, Heterocephalus glaber; smooth sumac, Rhus glabra; Omphiscola glabra (a snail) glaber – glabra – glabrum: glacialis: L: found in glaciers: North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis; glacier wormwood, Artemisia glacialis glacier lantern fish, Benthosema glaciale; Endocellion glaciale, a daisy: glacialis – glaciale ...
The closely related subfamily Spalacinae consists of mole-like rodents found in Africa and the Middle East; these are also myomorphic rodents. The family Bathyergidae , or African mole-rats (including the well-known naked mole-rat ), belong to the other major division of the rodents, the hystricomorphs.
Genus Bathyergus. Bathyergus janetta - Namaqua dune mole rat; Bathyergus suillus - Cape dune mole rat; Genus Cryptomys. Cryptomys hottentotus - African mole rat; Cryptomys mahali - Mahali mole-rat
The taxonomy represented here is a compilation of the most logical and up-to-date ... Genus Heterocephalus - naked mole-rat; Family Hystricidae. Genus Atherurus ...
The naked mole-rat has a particularly long life-span for a small rodent, about 30 years, and the basis for this longevity has been investigated. [46] Naked mole-rats express DNA repair genes, including core genes in several DNA repair pathways, at a higher level than shorter-lived mice, and thus it was suggested that DNA repair acts as a ...
It may look like a whiskered cocktail sausage, but the naked mole rat's incredible biology may one day improve countless lives. Meet the naked mole-rat: impervious to pain and cancer, and lives ...
Mole-rat or mole rat can refer to several groups of burrowing Old World rodents: Bathyergidae, a family of about 20 hystricognath species in six genera from Africa also called blesmols. Heterocephalus glaber, the naked mole-rat. Spalacidae, a family of about 30 muroid species in six genera from Eurasia and northeast Africa, including: