Bathyergus
| Bathyergus Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene to Recent
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| Bathyergus janetta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Bathyergidae |
| Genus: | Bathyergus Illiger, 1811 |
| Type species | |
| Mus maritimus Gmelin, 1788
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Bathyergus is the genus of dune mole-rats endemic to South Africa. It contains two species — B. janetta, the Namaqua dune mole-rat, and B. suillus, the Cape dune mole-rat.
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