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The blind mole-rats, also known as the fossorial or subterranean mole rats, are a subfamily (Spalacinae) of rodents in the family Spalacidae, found in eastern Europe and western and central Asia. The hystricognath mole-rats of the family Bathyergidae are completely unrelated, but some other forms are also in the family Spalacidae .
A fossorial animal (from Latin fossor 'digger') is one that is adapted to digging and which lives primarily (but not solely) underground. Examples of fossorial vertebrates are badgers, naked mole-rats, meerkats, armadillos, wombats, and mole salamanders. [1]
The greater blind mole-rat is a fossorial species that stays underground except when dispersing to new territories as juveniles, a period of great vulnerability. It lives a solitary existence, except during the breeding season.
It includes the blind mole-rats, bamboo rats, mole-rats, and zokors. This family represents the oldest split (excluding perhaps the Platacanthomyidae ) in the muroid superfamily, and comprises animals adapted to a subterranean way of life.
The northeast African mole-rat (Tachyoryctes splendens) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae and is found in Ethiopia, Somalia, and northwest Kenya. [2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, dry savanna, high-altitude shrubland and grassland. It lives a solitary existence underground and produces a ...
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The rodent subfamily Rhizomyinae includes the Asian bamboo rats and certain of the African mole-rats.The subfamily is grouped with the Spalacinae and the Myospalacinae into a family of fossorial muroid rodents basal to the other Muroidea.
A fossorial cylindrodontid anatomically similar to a mole-rat, but ecologically closer to the Tarbagan marmot. Synonymous with Pseudotsaganomys. Eumys: E. asiaticus: East Loh Loh Tatal Gol Field 538 A cricetid ecologically similar to a wild house mouse. Karakoromys: K. decessus: SW Loh Loh Tatal Gol A gundi ecologically similar to Kozlov's ...