Tachyoryctes ruddi Thomas 1909
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Tachyoryctes ruddi Thomas 1909
Tachyoryctes ruddi Thomas 1909, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 4: 547.
Type Locality: Kenya, Mt Elgon, Kirui, 6000 ft (1830 m).
Vernacular Names: Rudd's African Mole Rat.
Synonyms: Tachyoryctes badius Thomas 1909.
Distribution: SW Kenya between foothills of Mt Elgon and Port Florence on NE margin of Lake Victoria (Hollister, 1919), Ugandan and Kenyan slopes of Mt Elgon, SW Uganda (Lunde and Sarmiento, 2002), and NW Tanzania (N Kagera Prov.).
Conservation: IUCN - Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Thomas (1909 b) described T. ruddi as being about the same body size as T. daemon but differing in a suite of cranial traits; he also described badius as a subspecies of T. ruddi. This species and T. ankoliae have been taken together in the Kalinzu Forest Reserve, SW Uganda (Lunde and Sarmiento, 2002). Localities in NW Tanzania represent T. daemon according to Swynnerton and Hayman (1951), but we suspect that they represent T. ruddi. Tachyoryctes ankoliae has been reported from the same region in NE Tanzania (Bukoba; Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951). Ranges of the small-bodied T. ruddi, T. naivashae, and T. daemon are allopatric in mountains and high plains encircling Lake Victoria; specimens from intervening regions between the ranges and critical systematic revision should reveal the actual genetic relationships among these populations. Hollister (1919) commented on variation in pelage traits. Habitat and altitudinal distribution of T. ruddi on Ugandan slopes of Mt Elgon documented by Clausnitzer (2001) and Clausnitzer and Kityo (2001).
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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/3531D98F5105C84EF65AEE7D836CAF37 (URL)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Spalacidae
- Genus
- Tachyoryctes
- Species
- ruddi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tachyoryctes ruddi 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.
- Thomas, O. 1909 b. New African mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 4: 542 - 549.
- 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.
- Clausnitzer, V., and R. Kityo. 2001. Altitudinal distribution of rodents (Muridae and Gliridae) on Mt. Elgon, Uganda. Tropical Zoology, 14: 95 - 118.