Kenyan African Mole Rat

Kenyan African Mole Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Spalacidae
Genus: Tachyoryctes
Species: T. ibeanus
Binomial name
Tachyoryctes ibeanus
Thomas, 1900

The Kenyan African Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes ibeanus) is a species of rodent in the Spalacidae family. 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.

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