Tachyoryctes ankoliae Thomas 1909
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Tachyoryctes ankoliae Thomas 1909
Tachyoryctes ankoliae Thomas 1909, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 4: 545.
Type Locality: SW Uganda, Burumba, Ankole.
Vernacular Names: Ankole African Mole Rat.
Distribution: SW Uganda (Hollister, 1919; Lunde and Sarmiento, 2002) NW Tanzania (Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951); limits unknown.
Conservation: IUCN - Vulnerable.
Discussion: Recorded as a species by Swynnerton and Hayman (1951) but as a subspecies of T. splendens by Delany (1975), who nevertheless noted the cranial traits by which ankoliae could be distinguished from the adjacent ruddi, which was also treated as a subspecies of T. splendens by Delany. Both T. ankoliae and T. ruddi were caught in the Kalinzu forest preserve in SW Uganda (Lunde and Sarmiento, 2002) and the two species apparently occur in NW Tanzania (see account of T. ruddi).
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/A11DBA0A6C0B5DFF91C92FCE8D12B73F (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/C795FB196DB30A4195BCD5FC298AE0DD (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231539225 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Spalacidae
- Genus
- Tachyoryctes
- Species
- ankoliae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tachyoryctes ankoliae Thomas, 1909 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Hollister, N. 1919. East African mammals in the United States National Museum. Part II. Rodentia, Lagomorpha, and Tubulidentata. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 99 (2): 1 - 184.
- Lunde, D. P., and E. E. Sarmiento. 2002. Rodents collected from Kalinzu Forest, Uganda. Mammalian Biology, 67: 250 - 255.
- Swynnerton, G. H., and R. W. Hayman. 1951. A checklist of the land mammals of the Tanganyika Territory and the Zanzibar Protectorate. Journal of the East African Natural History Society, 20 (6): 274 - 392.
- Delany, M. J. 1975. The rodents of Uganda. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 165 pp.