Family SPALACIDAE

(MUROID MOLE-RATS)

• Small to medium-sized rodents with adaptations for subterranean life such as cylindrical bodies, enlarged incisors, and reduced tails, eyes, and ear pinnae.

• 13-70 cm.

• Palearctic, Afrotropical, and Indo-Malayan regions.

• Steppes, grasslands, meadows, forests, bamboo thickets, and farmlands.

• 7 genera, 28 species, 4H taxa.

• 2 species Endangered, 1 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.