Spalax galili

Upper Galilee Mountains blind mole-rat
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Spalacidae
Genus:	Spalax
Species:	S. galili
Binomial name
Spalax galili Nevo, Ivanitskaya, and Beiles, 2001.

The Upper Galilee Mountains blind mole-rat (Spalax galili) is an extant species of subterranean rodent within the family Spalacidae, indigenous to Upper Galilee in northern Israel. Following the identification of S. galili in 2001, Nevo et al. recorded specimens in the vicinity surrounding the Kerem Ben Zimra settlement.

S. galili is a model organism for the adaptation to underground conditions and has been genome sequenced in 2014.

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