Tachyoryctes
| 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 family Spalacidae.[1] 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.[2]
References
- ↑ Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 922–926. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ Schlitter, D.; Agwanda, B.; Corti, M. (2008). "Tachyoryctes splendens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
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