Bathyergus

{{Short description|Genus of rodents}}

{{automatic taxobox

| image = Bathyergus janetta - Smit.jpg

| image_caption = Bathyergus janetta

| image2 = Bathyergus suillus Flipphi 1.jpg

| image2_caption = Bathyergus suillus

| fossil_range = Middle Pleistocene to Recent

| taxon = Bathyergus

| authority = Illiger, 1811

| type_species = Mus maritimus

| type_species_authority = Gmelin, 1788

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = Bathyergus janetta

Bathyergus suillus

}}

Bathyergus is the genus of dune mole-rats endemic to South Africa. It contains two species :

• Namaqua dune mole-rat - B. janetta
• Cape dune mole-rat - B. suillus