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Tachyoryctes
''Tachyoryctes'' is a genus of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It contains the following species: * Ankole African mole-rat (''T. ankoliae'') * Mianzini African mole-rat (''T. annectens'') * Aberdare Mountains African mole-rat (''T. audax'') * Demon African mole-rat (''T. daemon'') * Kenyan African mole-rat (''T. ibeanus'') * Big-headed African mole-rat (''T. macrocephalus'') * Navivasha African mole-rat (''T. naivashae'') * King African mole-rat (''T. rex'') * Rwanda African mole-rat (''T. ruandae'') * Rudd's African mole-rat (''T. ruddi'') * Embi African mole-rat (''T. spalacinus'') * Northeast African mole-rat (''T. splendens'') * Storey's African mole-rat (''T. storeyi'') Some authorities place all the species in this genus except ''T. macrocephalus'' in one species, the East African mole-rat, in which case ''T. splendens'' is used for the entire group. This taxonomy is followed by the IUCN Red List The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King African Mole-rat
The King African mole-rat,Musser and Carleton, 2005, p. 924 King mole-rat, or Alpine mole-rat, (''Tachyoryctes rex'') is a burrowing rodent in the genus ''Tachyoryctes'' of family Spalacidae. It only occurs high on Mount Kenya, where it is common. Originally described as a separate species related to Aberdare Mountains African mole-rat, (''T. audax'') in 1910, some classify it as the same species as the East African mole-rat, (''T. splendens''). It is a very large, brownish species, with head and body length ranging from . The young are dark with irregular white patches on their underparts. The animal builds large burrows and perhaps associated mounds and eats plant roots. Taxonomy In 1909, John Alden Loring collected the holotype while on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition led by Theodore Roosevelt. The next year, Edmund Heller described the species as ''Tachyoryctes rex''; he thought it most closely related to another Kenyan species, '' T. audax''. In 1919 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
