Cryptomys

Cryptomys
Temporal range: Early Pliocene to Recent
Cryptomys hottentotus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Bathyergidae
Genus: Cryptomys
J. E. Gray, 1864
Type species
Georychus holosericeus
Wagner, 1842
(= Bathyergus hottentotus Lesson, 1826)
Species

Cryptomys hottentotus
Cryptomys mahali
Cryptomys natalensis
Cryptomys nimrodi
Cryptomys pretoriae

Cryptomys is the genus of mole-rats, endemic to Africa.[1] Most of the species formerly placed in this genus were moved to the genus Fukomys in 2006.

Species

The species currently included in this genus are:[2]

The following species were formerly in Cryptomys but later moved to the genus Fukomys:

References

  1. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ "Cryptomys Gray, 1864". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  • Kock D, Ingram CM, Frabotta LJ, Honeycutt RL, Burda H. 2006. On the nomenclature of Bathyergidae and Fukomys n. gen. (Mammalia: Rodentia). Zootaxa 1142: 51–55.


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