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Cryptomys
Temporal range: Early Pliocene to RecentScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Bathyergidae Genus: Cryptomys
Gray, 1864Species Cryptomys anomalus
Cryptomys holosericeus
Cryptomys hottentotus
Cryptomys natalensis
Cryptomys nimrodiCryptomys is the genus of common mole rats, endemic to Africa. Most of the species formerly placed in this genus were moved to the genus Fukomys in 2006.
References
- Kock D, Ingram CM, Frabotta LJ, Honeycutt RL, Burda H. 2006. On the nomenclature of Bathyergidae and Fukomys n. gen. (Mammalia: Rodentia). Zootaxa 1142: 51–55.
- Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
Extant species of family Bathyergidae (African mole rats) Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Mammalia · Order: Rodentia · Suborder: Hystricomorpha · Infraorder: Hystricognathi · Parvorder: Phiomorpha Bathyerginae Heterocephalinae Category Categories:- Cryptomys
- Bathyergidae
- Rodent stubs
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