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Spalax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The genus Spalax contains the blind, fossorial, or subterranean mole-rats, which are one of several types of rodents that are called mole-rats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalax
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Naked Mole-rat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The naked mole-rat, also known as the sand puppy or desert mole rat, is a burrowing mammal native to parts of East Africa and is the only species currently classified in the genus Heterocephalus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole-rat
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'Blind' Mole Rats Can See, Study Confirms - Livescience
Once thought to be blind, two species of mole rats respond to both white and colored light
http://www.livescience.com/8468-blind-mole-rats-study-confirms.html
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ADW: Blind Mole-rats - Spalacinae
Eurasian or Ukrainian blind mole-rats, the Spalacinae, comprise a relatively small subfamily of Old-World fossorial muroid rodents. There are 13 species in 1 genus, Spalax.
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Spalacinae/
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Why Blind Mole Rats Don't Get Cancer - WIRED
Blind mole rats don't get cancer, and geneticists have worked out why: Their cells kill themselves with a poisonous protein when they multiply too much.
http://www.wired.com/2012/11/blind-mole-rat-cancer
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ADW: Naked Mole Rat - Heterocephalus glaber
Historically, naked mole rats have been found in Uganda and Tanzania. The current range of the species is countries in eastern Africa such as Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Heterocephalus_glaber/
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BBC Nature - Mole Rats Videos, News and Facts
Mole rats are rodents that are highly evolved for a life spent digging elaborate, underground burrow systems.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Blesmol
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Naked Mole-rat - San Diego Zoo Animals
The forbidding environment of East Africa's deserts is home to one of the most bizarre rodents, the naked mole-rat. These beauties wouldn't win any pageants, but they are fascinating animals.
http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/naked-mole-rat
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Blind Mole Rat - Britannica
Spalacinae any of eight species of burrowing rodents living in the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea regions.
http://www.britannica.com/animal/blind-mole-rat
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Naked Mole Rats - National Geographic
Learn all you wanted to know about naked mole rats with pictures, videos, photos, facts, and news from National Geographic.
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/naked-mole-rat
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Blesmol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The blesmols, also known as mole-rats, or African mole-rats, are burrowing rodents of the family Bathyergidae. They represent a distinct evolution of a subterranean life among rodents much like the pocket gophers of North America, the tuco-tucos in South America, or the Spalacidae.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blesmol
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Common Mole-rat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Common mole-rat is a burrowing rodent found in Southern Africa, in particular in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_mole-rat
