Biology:Kenyan African mole-rat

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Short description: Species of rodent

Kenyan African mole-rat
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Spalacidae
Genus: Tachyoryctes
Species:
T. ibeanus
Binomial name
Tachyoryctes ibeanus
Thomas, 1900[1]

The Kenyan African mole-rat or Kenyan mole-rat (Tachyoryctes ibeanus) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It is endemic to Kenya. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, and heavily degraded former forest.

Some taxonomic authorities consider it to be conspecific with the East African mole-rat.

References

  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

Wikidata ☰ Q1766989 entry