{{Short description|Genus of rodents}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Bathyergus janetta - Smit.jpg | image_caption = ''Bathyergus janetta'' | image2 = Bathyergus suillus Flipphi 1.jpg | image2_caption = ''Bathyergus suillus'' | fossil_range = Middle Pleistocene to Recent | taxon = Bathyergus | authority = Illiger, 1811 | type_species = ''Mus maritimus'' | type_species_authority = Gmelin, 1788 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''Bathyergus janetta''<br /> ''Bathyergus suillus'' }}
'''''Bathyergus''''' is the genus of dune mole-rats endemic to South Africa. It contains two species :
* Namaqua dune mole-rat - ''B. janetta'' * Cape dune mole-rat - ''B. suillus''
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Category:Bathyergus Category:Blesmols Category:Mammals of South Africa Category:Rodent genera Category:Taxa named by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
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