Sandy blind mole-rat

Sandy blind mole-rat
Reverse side of a coin showing a mole rat
Spalax arenarius on a Ukrainian coin issued in 2005
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Spalacidae
Genus: Spalax
Species:
S. arenarius
Binomial name
Spalax arenarius
Reshetnik, 1939

The sandy blind mole-rat (Spalax arenarius) is an endangered species of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It is endemic to Ukraine.[2] It was first identified by Evdokia Reshetnik in 1939.[3]: 144 

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  2. ^ "Spalax arenarius Reshetnik, 1939". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  3. ^ Korobchenko, Marina (December 2016). "Євдокія Решетник (1903–1996) — видатна постать в історії академічної зоології та екології в Україні" [Evdokia Reshetnyk (1903–1996) — An Outstanding Figure in the History of Academic Zoology and Ecology in Ukraine] (PDF). Proceedings of the National Museum of Natural History (in Ukrainian). 2016 (14). Kyiv, Ukraine: National Museum of Natural History at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: 136–146. doi:10.15407/vnm.2016.14.136. ISSN 2219-7516. OCLC 8173121205. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 March 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.