Kenyan African mole-rat
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Kenyan African mole-rat | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Spalacidae |
Genus: | Tachyoryctes |
Species: | T. ibeanus
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Binomial name | |
Tachyoryctes ibeanus |
The Kenyan African mole-rat or Kenyan mole-rat (Tachyoryctes ibeanus) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae. 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.
Some taxonomic authorities consider it to be conspecific with the East African mole-rat.
References
- ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- 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.
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- Mammals of Kenya
- Tachyoryctes
- Endemic fauna of Kenya
- Mammals described in 1900
- Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
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- Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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