Bathyergidae

Heterocephalus glaber (naked mole rat), a species of familia bathygeridae

Taxonavigation

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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Chordata Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Theria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Ordo: Rodentia
Subordo: Hystricomorpha
Infraordo: Hystricognathi
Infraordo: Phiomorpha
Familia: Bathyergidae
Genera: Bathyergus - Cryptomys - Fukomys - Georychus - Heliophobius - Heterocephalus

Name

Bathyergidae Waterhouse, 1841

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Sandgräber
English: Blesmol
Lëtzebuergesch: Sandgriewer
Lietuvių: Smėliarausiniai

References

• Kock, D.; Ingram, C.M.; Frabotta, L.J.; Honeycutt, R.L.; Burda, H. 2006: On the nomenclature of Bathyergidae and Fukomys n. gen. (Mammalia: Rodentia). Zootaxa, 1142: 51-55. Abstract & excerpt
• Bathyergidae in Mammal Species of the World.
  Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (eds) (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed).