| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Rodentia
- ---- family: Bathyergidae
- ----- species: Georychus capensis
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| Characteristics: | herbivore; length: 20cm; greyish-brown fur with a white patch on top of the head, black-and-white marking on the head; large round head; short tail; tiny eyes and ears; well developed incisors; short legs; |
| Countries: | - ZA
- South Africa
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT1003
- Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands
- AT1004
- Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
- AT1009
- Highveld grasslands
- AT1012
- Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
- AT1201
- Albany thickets
- AT1202
- Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
- AT1203
- Montane fynbos and renosterveld
- AT1314
- Nama Karoo
- AT1322
- Succulent Karoo
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| References: | Stuart and Stuart 2007: 100 |
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