Mole Rat

Mole rat or mole-rat refers to several groups of burrowing rodents or * Bathyergidae, a family of about 20 species from Africa, including:

• Heterocephalus glaber, the naked mole rat
• Spalacidae, a family of about 30 species from Eurasia and northeast Africa, including:
  • Tachyoryctes, a genus of about 15 species from Africa
  • Blind mole rats (Spalacinae), a subfamily of about 15 living species from southeastern Europe, southwestern Asia, and northeastern Africa;
  • Zokors (Myospalacinae), occasionally called mole rats, about eight species from central and eastern Asia
• Nesokia indica from southern and southwestern Asia and Egypt, also known as the short-tailed mole rat
• Bandicota bengalensis from southern Asia, also known as the Indian mole rat
• Chelemys macronyx from southernmost South America, also known as the mountain mole rat