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    The Spalacidae, or spalacids, are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. They are native to eastern Asia, the Horn of Africa...
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    Spalax is a genus of rodent in the family Spalacidae, subfamily Spalacinae (blind mole-rats). It is one of two extant genera in the subfamily Spalacinae...
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    species. Family Platacanthomyidae (spiny dormouse and pygmy dormice) Family Spalacidae (fossorial muroids) Subfamily Myospalacinae (zokors) Subfamily Rhizomyinae...
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    mole-rat (Spalax microphthalmus) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It is found in Russia and Ukraine. The greater blind mole-rat is tailless...
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    mole-rat (Nannospalax ehrenbergi) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It was formerly classified in the genus Spalax, but more recent phylogenetic...
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  • Africa also called blesmols. Heterocephalus glaber, the naked mole-rat. Spalacidae, a family of about 30 muroid species in six genera from Eurasia and northeast...
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  • mole-rat (Spalax antiquus) is an endangered species of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It is endemic to Romania. Previously described in 1909 by Lajos Méhelÿ...
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    Nannospalax is a genus of rodent in the family Spalacidae, found in eastern Europe and western Asia. It is one of two genera in the blind mole-rats (subfamily...
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    Myospalax is a genus of rodents in the family Spalacidae. It contains these species of zokor: False zokor, M. aspalax Siberian zokor, M. myospalax Transbaikal...
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    Malagasy rats and mice Family Platacanthomyidae: spiny dormice Family Spalacidae: mole rats, bamboo rats, zokors Suborder Sciuromorpha Family Aplodontiidae:...
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