Kenyan African Mole Rat | |
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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.