Heterocephalus glaber
A Dictionary of Zoology | Date: 1999
Heterocephalus glaber (naked mole rat) A
hypogaeous rodent of the family Bathyergidae and the only mammal known to exhibit
eusociality.
© A Dictionary of Zoology 1999, originally published by Oxford University Press 1999.
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