Golden mole | mammal | Britannica
Golden mole, (order Chrysochloridea), any of 18 species of blind and tailless burrowing insectivores that live in subSaharan Africa. They are sufficiently different from other moles and insectivores to constitute their own mammalian order. Golden moles have a cylindrical body, short limbs, and no external tail; tail vertebrae are beneath the skin.