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Taxon: Family Bathyergidae Waterhouse, 1841 - African mole-rats (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Rodentia

Subsequent positions

Bathyergomorphi (Parvorder) Tullberg, 1899 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 195.

Original entries

Questionably Bathyerginae (Subfamily) Waterhouse, 1841
Questionably Heterocephalinae (Subfamily) Landry, 1957

Current position

Bathyergoidea (Superfamily) Waterhouse, 1841 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1054.

Alternative positions

Bathyergomorphi (Parvorder) Tullberg, 1899 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 195. [new position]
Hystricognathi (Suborder) Tullberg, 1899 Ref: C.A. Woods, 1993: 771.
Hystricognathi (Infraorder) Tullberg, 1899 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
Rodentia (Order) Bowdich, 1821 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 207.

Historical positions

Hystricognathi (Infraorder) Tullberg, 1899 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
Hystricognathi (Infraorder) Tullberg, 1899 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 58.
Bathyergomorphi (Parvorder) Tullberg, 1899 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 195. [new position]
Hystricognathi (Suborder) Tullberg, 1899 Ref: C.A. Woods, 1993: 771; 7.
Rodentia (Order) Bowdich, 1821 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 207.
Bathyergoidea (Superfamily) Waterhouse, 1841 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1054; 1051.
Bathyergoidea (Superfamily) Waterhouse, 1841 Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 592.

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 4g;11s; †3g;1s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000: 10 Jun 2022 [4g;11s; †3g]
2011 D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder: 58 5g;16s
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [5g; †3g]
1993 C.A. Woods 5g;12s
1991 G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill [5g];~11s
1982 A.F. DeBlase 5g;9s
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