Audacious mole-rat
Audacious mole-rat | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Spalacidae |
Genus: | Tachyoryctes |
Species: | T. audax |
Binomial name | |
Tachyoryctes audax Thomas, 1910 | |
The audacious mole-rat or Aberdare Mountains African mole-rat (Tachyoryctes audax) is a species of rodents in the Spalacidae family endemic to Kenya. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
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., Corti, M. & Agwanda, B. 2004. Tachyoryctes audax. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 July 2007.