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Heterohyrax brucei (Yellow-spotted rock hyrax)

yellow-spooted dassie [English]; geelkoldassie, geelkoldas [Afrikaans]; Buschschliefer [German]; daman de steppe [French]; perere mawe [Swahili]; imbila [isiNdebele]; tshwanyê [Setswana]; mbira [Shona]

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Deuterostomia > Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates)  > Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class: Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota > Synapsida (mammal-like reptiles) > Therapsida > Theriodontia >  Cynodontia > Mammalia (mammals) > Placentalia (placental mammals) > Afrotheria > Paenungulata > Hyracoidea (hyraxes)

Heterohyrax brucei (Yellow-spotted rock hyrax), Kruger National Park, South Africa. [photo Trevor Hardaker ©]