Cryptomys
{{Short description|Genus of rodents}}
{{automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Early Pliocene to Recent
| image = Cryptomys hottentotus Whatmore 1.jpg
| image_caption = Cryptomys hottentotus
| taxon = Cryptomys
| authority = J. E. Gray, 1864
| type_species = Georychus holosericeus
| type_species_authority = Wagner, 1842
(= Bathyergus hottentotus Lesson, 1826)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = Cryptomys hottentotus
}}
Cryptomys is the genus of mole-rats, endemic to Africa.{{MSW3|id=13400007}} Most of the species formerly placed in this genus were moved to the genus Fukomys in 2006.
Species
The species currently included in this genus are:{{Cite web |title=Cryptomys Gray, 1864 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2437211 |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}}
- Cryptomys hottentotus (Lesson, 1826)
- Cryptomys mahali (Roberts, 1913)
- Cryptomys natalensis (Roberts, 1913)
- Cryptomys nimrodi (de Winton, 1896)
- Cryptomys pretoriae (Roberts, 1913)
The following species were formerly in Cryptomys but later moved to the genus Fukomys:
- Cryptomys amatus (Wroughton, 1907)
- Cryptomys anselli (Burda, Zima, Scharff, Macholán & Kawalika, 1999)
- Cryptomys bocagei (de Winton, 1897)
- Cryptomys damarensis (Ogilby, 1838)
- Cryptomys darlingi (Thomas, 1895)
- Cryptomys foxi (Thomas, 1911)
- Cryptomys kafuensis (Burda, Zima, Scharff, Macholán & Kawalika, 1999)
- Cryptomys mechowi (Peters, 1881)
- Cryptomys ochraceocinereus (Heuglin, 1864)
- Cryptomys zechi (Matschie, 1900)
References
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- 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.
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Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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