Cryptomys
| Cryptomys Temporal range: Early Pliocene to Recent
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Cryptomys hottentotus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Bathyergidae |
| Genus: | Cryptomys J. E. Gray, 1864 |
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Georychus holosericeus | |
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Cryptomys is the genus of mole-rats, endemic to Africa.[1] Most of the species formerly placed in this genus were moved to the genus Fukomys in 2006.
Species
The species currently included in this genus are:[2]
- Cryptomys hottentotus(Lesson, 1826)
- Cryptomys mahali (Roberts, 1913)
- Cryptomys natalensis (Roberts, 1913)
- Cryptomys nimrodi(de Winton, 1896)
- Cryptomys pretoriae (Roberts, 1913)
The following species were formerly in Cryptomys but later moved to the genus Fukomys:
- Cryptomys amatus(Wroughton, 1907)
- Cryptomys anselli(Burda, Zima, Scharff, Macholán & Kawalika, 1999)
- Cryptomys bocagei(de Winton, 1897)
- Cryptomys damarensis(Ogilby, 1838)
- Cryptomys darlingi(Thomas, 1895)
- Cryptomys foxi(Thomas, 1911)
- Cryptomys kafuensis(Burda, Zima, Scharff, Macholán & Kawalika, 1999)
- Cryptomys mechowi(Peters, 1881)
- Cryptomys ochraceocinereus(Heuglin, 1864)
- Cryptomys zechi(Matschie, 1900)
References
- OCLC 62265494.
- ^ "Cryptomys Gray, 1864". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- Kock D, Ingram CM, Frabotta LJ, Honeycutt RL, Burda H. 2006. On the nomenclature of Bathyergidae and Fukomys n. gen. (Mammalia: Rodentia). Zootaxa 1142: 51–55.