Tachyoryctes
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| Tachyoryctes Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Recent | |
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| Tachyoryctes splendens | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Spalacidae |
| Subfamily: | Tachyoryctinae |
| Genus: | Tachyoryctes Rüppell, 1835 |
| Species | |
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Tachyoryctes ankoliae | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chrysomys Gray, 1843 | |
Tachyoryctes is a genus of rodent in the Spalacidae family. It contains the following species:
- Ankole mole rat (T. ankoliae)
- Mianzini mole rat (T. annectens)
- Audacious mole rat (T. audax)
- Demon mole rat (T. daemon)
- Kenyan African mole rat (T. ibeanus)
- Big-headed mole rat (T. macrocephalus)
- Naivasha mole rat (T. naivashae)
- King mole rat (T. rex)
- Ruanda mole rat (T. ruandae)
- Rudd's mole rat (T. ruddi)
- Embi mole rat (T. spalacinus)
- East African mole rat (T. splendens)
- Storey's African mole rat (T. storeyi)
Some authorities place all the species in this genus except T. macrocephalus in one species, the East African mole rat, T. splendens. This taxonomy is followed by the IUCN Red List.
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.
- Schlitter, D., Agwanda, B. & Corti, M. (2008). "Tachyoryctes splendens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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