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Definition of Genus bathyergus

1. Noun. Mole rats.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Bathyergus

Literary usage of Genus bathyergus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to by Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray (1833)
"... We may here notice the genus Bathyergus, peculiar to the south of Africa. The sand mole (B. maritimus), as the larger species is usually called, ..."

2. Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to by Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray (1830)
"... We may here notice the genus Bathyergus, peculiar to the south of Africa. The sand mole (B. maritimus), as the larger species is usually called, ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"The genus Bathyergus contains but a single species, the Cape Mole-Eat, which is found in Southern Africa; it is of moderate size, not exceeding a small ..."

4. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"The eyeballs are very small in the allied genus Bathyergus, fig. 174, and other rodent bur- rowers : they acquire the largest absolute and proportional size ..."

5. The Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described by Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Forbes (1854)
"The sand^flats around the Cape are bored by peculiar moles of the genus Bathyergus, and one of the most curious of African animals, ..."

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