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Spalax judaei

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

The Judean Mountains blind mole-rat (Spalax judaei) is an extant species of subterranean rodent within the family Spalacidae, indigenous to central Israel. Following the identification of S. judaei in 2001, Nevo et al. recorded specimens in the vicinity surrounding Kibbutz Lahav. This species, along with Spalax golani and, by a different mechanism, Heterocephalus glaber, appears to be immune to cancer.


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