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Tachyoryctes naivashae Thomas 1909
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Tachyoryctes naivashae Thomas 1909
Tachyoryctes naivashae Thomas 1909, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 4: 547.
Type Locality: S Kenya, Lake Naivasha, 6350 ft (1935 m).
Vernacular Names: Navivasha African Mole Rat.
Distribution: Kenya; recorded from plains S and SW of Lake Naivasha to near the Tanzanian border (Hollister, 1919); may also occur in N Tanzania.
Conservation: IUCN - Endangered.
Discussion: Considered by Thomas (1909 b:547) to be the smallest in body size of the East African Tachyoryctes and occurring "quite close" to the two largest (T. annectens and T. storeyi). "Its small size and flattened skull will readily separate it from any other form" (Thomas, 1909 b). See Hollister (1919) for notes on habitat and collection localities.
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Spalacidae, pp. 907-926 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 907, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
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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/A6B71C04A09CA5C8CB540F02E17B3128 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231539229 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Spalacidae
- Genus
- Tachyoryctes
- Species
- naivashae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tachyoryctes naivashae 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.
- Thomas, O. 1909 b. New African mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 4: 542 - 549.