Storey's African Mole Rat
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| Storey's African Mole Rat | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Spalacidae |
| Genus: | Tachyoryctes |
| Species: | T. storeyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Tachyoryctes storeyi Thomas, 1909 |
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Storey's African Mole Rat (Tachyoryctes storeyi) is a species of rodent in the Spalacidae family. It is endemic to Kenya. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
[edit] References
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- Schlitter, D. & Agwanda, B. 2004. Tachyoryctes storeyi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 July 2007.
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