Cryptomys

Cryptomys

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Phiomorpha

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cohors: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Cladus: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Euarchontoglires Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Hystricomorpha Infraordo: Hystricognathi Parvordo: Phiomorpha

Familia: Bathyergidae
Genus: Cryptomys
Species (4): C. anomalus – C. holosericus – C. hottentotus – C. natalensis

Name

• Cryptomys Gray, 1864: 124

Type species: Georychus holosericeus Wagner, 1842, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Coetomys Gray, 1864

Type species: Bathyergus caecutiens Brants, 1826, by subsequent fixation to Ellerman et al. (1953: 23).

• Typhloryctes Fitzinger, 1867

Type species: Bathyergus caecutiens Brants, 1826, by subsequent fixation to Ellerman et al. (1953: 23).

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1864. Notes on the species of sand-moles (Georychus). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864: 123–125. BHL
• Ellerman, J.R., Morrison-Scott, T.C.S. & Hayman, R.W. 1953. Southern African mammals 1758–1951: a reclassification. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. 363 pp.

Additional references

• Ingram, C.M., Burda, H. & Honeycutt, R.L. 2004. Molecular phylogenetics and taxonomy of the African mole-rats genus Cryptomys and the new genus Coetomys Gray, 1864. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31(3): 997–1014. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2003.11.004 Reference page. 
• Kock, D., Ingram, C.M., Frabotta, L.J., Honeycutt, R.L. & Burda, H. 2006. On the nomenclature of Bathyergidae and Fukomys n. gen. (Mammalia: Rodentia). Zootaxa 1142: 51–55. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

Links

• Cryptomys in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.