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FAMILY Bathyergidae

Author:Waterhouse, 1841.
Citation:Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser.1], 8: 81.
Comments:The family traditionally has been divided into two subfamilies (Roberts, 1951): Bathyerginae with grooved upper incisors (Bathyergus); and Georychinae with ungrooved upper incisors (Cryptomys, Georychus, Heliophobius, Heterocephalus). Ellerman et al. (1953:227) suggested that a third subfamily should be recognized for the aberrant East African Heterocephalus. Molecular data (Allard and Honeycutt, 1992; Faulkes et al., 1997; Honeycutt et al., 1991; Janecek et al., 1992; Nevo et al., 1987; Walton et al., 2000) do not support the traditional division into two subfamilies, but Heterocephalus is the most basal taxon of this family in nearly all of these studies. McKenna and Bell (1997) recognized two subfamilies, the Bathyerginae and the Heterocephalinae and placed the family in the parvorder Bathyergomorphi. Recent protein electrophoretic (Filippucci et al., 1994; 1997; Janecek et al., 1992; Nevo et al., 1987), karyotypic (Aguilar, 1993; Burda et al., 1999; Macholán et al., 1993; 1998; Nevo et al., 1986; Scharff et al., 2001) and molecular (Allard and Honeycutt, 1992; Faulkes et al., 1997; Honeycutt et al., 1991; Nedbal et al., 1994; Walton et al., 2000) studies have contributed substantially to the resolution of the systematics of mole-rats.
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Offspring:

SUBFAMILY Bathyerginae

GENUS Bathyergus

SPECIES janetta

SPECIES suillus

GENUS Cryptomys

SPECIES amatus

SPECIES anselli

SPECIES bocagei

SPECIES damarensis

SPECIES darlingi

SPECIES foxi

SPECIES hottentotus

SUBSPECIES hottentotus

SUBSPECIES natalensis

SUBSPECIES whytei

SPECIES kafuensis

SPECIES mechowi

SUBSPECIES mechowi

SUBSPECIES mellandi

SPECIES ochraceocinereus

SUBSPECIES ochraceocinereus

SUBSPECIES oweni

SPECIES zechi

GENUS Georychus

SPECIES capensis

GENUS Heliophobius

SPECIES argenteocinereus

SUBSPECIES argenteocinereus

SUBSPECIES albifrons

SUBSPECIES angonicus

SUBSPECIES emini

SUBSPECIES kapiti

SUBSPECIES marungensis

SUBSPECIES mottoulei

SUBSPECIES robustus

SUBSPECIES spalax

SUBFAMILY Heterocephalinae

GENUS Heterocephalus

SPECIES glaber

Synonyms:

    Orycterideae Lesson, 1842

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