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
Famous quotes containing the words mole and/or rat:
“On her left breast
A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops
I’ th’ bottom of a cowslip.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“But you think ... that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)