Fig. 1: Distribution, localities, and CYTB phylogeny.
From: More than one species of the naked mole-rat, a new biomedical model
A Distribution of sampled sites, presence records of Heterocephalus and type localities of formally described species (the precise type locality of H. glaber is not known, but it should be around Afar triangle, see ref. 28. The basemap is Google Satellite imagery accessed via XYZ Tiles (QGIS), 2025; Map data © Google. The species’ distribution outline is from the IUCN Red List (International Union for Conservation of Nature, 2008). Country boundaries are taken from Natural Earth. B Cytochrome b tree with branch colours indicating species delimited by the branchcutting algorithm. Monophyly of all three lineages (phillipsi, glaber and ansorgei) was supported with PP = 1.00. The locality numbers used in the map are associated with locality names on the tree tips.
