Kafue Mole Rat

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Kafue Mole Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Bathyergidae
Genus: Cryptomys
Species: C. kafuensis
Binomial name
Cryptomys kafuensis
Burda, Zima, Scharff, Macholán & Kawalika, 1999

Kafue Mole Rat (Cryptomys kafuensis) is a species of rodent in the Bathyergidae family. It is endemic to Zambia. Its natural habitat is moist savanna.

[edit] References

  • Coterill, W. & Maree, S. 2004. Cryptomys kafuensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
  • Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.