Cryptomys

Cryptomys Temporal range: Early Pliocene to Recent
Cryptomys hottentotus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Bathyergidae
Genus:	Cryptomys J. E. Gray, 1864
Type species
Georychus holosericeus Wagner, 1842 (= Bathyergus hottentotus Lesson, 1826)
Species
Cryptomys hottentotus Cryptomys mahali Cryptomys natalensis Cryptomys nimrodi Cryptomys pretoriae
Cryptomys distribution.png C. natalensis in red, C. hottentotus in blue, C. pretoriae in green, C. mahali in brown (in box)

Cryptomys is the genus of mole-rats, endemic to Africa. 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:

• 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

• 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.

This article about a rodent is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

• v
• t
• e