Heliophobius Peters 1846 (mole rat)
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Mammalia - Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Parent taxon: Bathyergidae according to R. L. Honeycutt et al. 1987
Sister taxa: Bathyergoides, Bathyergus, Cryptomys, Cyclomylus, Geofossor, Georychus, Gypsorhynchus, Heterocephalus, Paracryptomys, Proheliophobius, Tsaganomyinae
Subtaxa: Heliophobius argenteocinereus
Ecology: fossorial herbivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Heliophobius in the database
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