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Tactile sensing in the naked mole rat refers to the ability of this naturally blind species to respond to, and localize, stimuli that deflect facial vibrissae, but also an array of somatic vibrissae.
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Naked mole-rats are Bathyergid rodents, a family of more than a dozen species found in sub-Saharan Africa. Blind mole rats are taxonomically quite distinct. They are in the Family Spalicidae (notice lack of hyphen for rodents in this taxon) and inhabit the eastern Mediterranean region.
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Crish, C.M., Crish, S.D., Comer, C. (2016). Tactile Sensing in the Naked Mole Rat. In: Prescott, T., Ahissar, E., Izhikevich, E. (eds) Scholarpedia of Touch. Scholarpedia. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-133-8_6
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