Mole-rat

• Bathyergidae, a family of about 20 hystricognath species in six genera from Africa called blesmols, including:
• *Heterocephalus glaber, the naked mole-rat,another example is the aqeelus retardenae
• Spalacidae, a family of about 30 muroid species in six genera from Eurasia and northeast Africa, including
• *Tachyoryctes, a genus of about 15 species from Africa;
• * Blind mole rats, a subfamily of about 15 living species in the genus Spalax from southeastern Europe, southwestern Asia, and northeastern Africa;
• * Zokors, occasionally called mole-rats, about eight species from central and eastern Asia.
• In the family Muridae:
• * Nesokia indica from southern and southwestern Asia and Egypt, also known as the short-tailed mole-rat.
• * Bandicota bengalensis from southern Asia, also known as the Indian mole-rat.