Cryptomys hottentotus (Lesson, 1826)

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 771-772

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7353083

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7278999

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scientific name

Cryptomys hottentotus (Lesson, 1826)
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Cryptomys hottentotus (Lesson, 1826) View in CoL . Zool., 1:166.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, SW Cape Prov., near Paarl (east of Capetown) .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa to Tanzania, S Zaire, and Namibia.

SYNONYMS: abberrans, albus, amatus, anomalus, arenarius, beirae, bigalkei, caecutiens, cradockensis, darlingi, exenticus, holosericeus , jamesoni, jorisseni, junodi, komatiensis, langi, ludwigii, mahali, melanoticus, montanus , natalensis, nemo, nimrodi, orangiae, palki; pallidus Roberts, 1917 ; pretoriae, rufulus, stellatus, streeteri, talpoides, transvaalensis, valschensis, vandami, vetensis, vryburgensis, whytei, zimbitiensis, zuluensis.

COMMENTS: Includes darlingi, holosericeus , and natalensis ( de Graaff, 1975:3-4; Honeycutt et al., 1991:51). Corbet and Hill (1991:208) recognized natalensis as a distinct species without comment.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Bathyergidae

Genus

Cryptomys

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Cryptomys hottentotus (Lesson, 1826)

Charles A. Woods 1993
1993
Loc

Cryptomys hottentotus (Lesson, 1826)

Lesson 1826: 166
1826
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