The short-tailed bandicoot rat (Nesokia indica) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. Other common names include short-tailed mole rat, Indian bandicoot, bandicoot-rat, flat-tooth rat and short-tailed nesokia.
Accepted synonyms include Nesokia bacheri (Nehring, 1897), N. bailwardi (Thomas, 1907), N. beaba (Wroughton, 1908), N. boettgeri (Radde and Walter, 1889), N. brachyura (Büchner, 1889), N. buxtoni (Thomas, 1919), N. chitralensis (Schlitter and Setzer, 1973), Nesokia dukelskiana (Heptner, 1928), Nesokia griffithi (Horsfield, 1851), Nesokia hardwickei (Gray, 1837), N. huttoni (Blyth, 1846), N. indicus (Peters, 1860), N. insularis (Goodwin, 1940), N. legendrei (Goodwin, 1939), N. myosura (Wagner, 1845), N. satunini (Nehring, 1899), N. scullyi (Wood-Mason, 1876) and N. suilla (Thomas, 1907).
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