| Cape dune mole-rat[1] | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Bathyergidae |
| Genus: | Bathyergus |
| Species: | B. suillus
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| Binomial name | |
| Bathyergus suillus (Schreber, 1782)
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The Cape dune mole-rat (Bathyergus suillus) is a species of solitary burrowing rodent in the family Bathyergidae. It is endemic to South Africa and named for the Cape of Good Hope.
- ^ Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
- ^ Maree, S.; Jarvis, J.; Bennett, N.C.; Visser, J. (2017). "Bathyergus suillus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T2620A110017759. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T2620A110017759.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.