Biology:Cryptomys
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Short description: Genus of rodents
| Cryptomys Temporal range: Early Pliocene to Recent
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| Cryptomys hottentotus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Bathyergidae |
| Genus: | Cryptomys Gray, 1864 |
| Type species | |
| Georychus holosericeus | |
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Cryptomys hottentotus | |
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
Source:[2]
- Cryptomys amatus (Wroughton, 1907)
- Cryptomys anselli (Burda, Zima, Scharff, Macholán & Kawalika, 1999)
- Cryptomys bocagei (de Winton, 1897)
- Cryptomys damarensis (Ogilby, 1838)
- Cryptomys darlingi (Thomas, 1895)
- Cryptomys foxi (Thomas, 1911)
- Cryptomys hottentotus (Lesson, 1826)
- Cryptomys kafuensis (Burda, Zima, Scharff, Macholán & Kawalika, 1999)
- Cryptomys mechowi (Peters, 1881)
- Cryptomys natalensis (Roberts, 1913)
- Cryptomys ochraceocinereus (Heuglin, 1864)
- Cryptomys zechi (Matschie, 1900)
References
- ↑ 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. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400007.
- ↑ "Cryptomys Gray, 1864" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/2437211.
- 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q136488 entry
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