Cryptomys
Appearance
Taxonavigation
[edit]Familia: Bathyergidae
Genus: Cryptomys
Species (4): C. anomalus – C. holosericus – C. hottentotus – C. natalensis
Name
[edit]- Cryptomys Gray, 1864: 124
Type species: Georychus holosericeus Wagner, 1842, by monotypy.
Synonyms
[edit]- Coetomys Gray, 1864
Type species: Bathyergus caecutiens Brants, 1826, by subsequent fixation to Ellerman et al. (1953: 23).
- Typhloryctes Fitzinger, 1867
Type species: Bathyergus caecutiens Brants, 1826, by subsequent fixation to Ellerman et al. (1953: 23).
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Gray, J.E. 1864. Notes on the species of sand-moles (Georychus). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864: 123–125. BHL
- Ellerman, J.R., Morrison-Scott, T.C.S. & Hayman, R.W. 1953. Southern African mammals 1758–1951: a reclassification. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. 363 pp.
Additional references
[edit]- Ingram, C.M., Burda, H. & Honeycutt, R.L. 2004. Molecular phylogenetics and taxonomy of the African mole-rats genus Cryptomys and the new genus Coetomys Gray, 1864. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31(3): 997–1014. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2003.11.004 Reference page.
- Kock, D., Ingram, C.M., Frabotta, L.J., Honeycutt, R.L. & Burda, H. 2006. On the nomenclature of Bathyergidae and Fukomys n. gen. (Mammalia: Rodentia). Zootaxa 1142: 51–55. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Cryptomys in Mammal Species of the World.
Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.