Matabeleland mole-rat
Appearance
Matabeleland mole-rat | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Bathyergidae |
Genus: | Cryptomys |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | C. h. nimrodi
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Trinomial name | |
Cryptomys hottentotus nimrodi (de Winton, 1897)
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The Matabeleland mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus nimrodi) is a subspecies of the common mole-rat found in Zimbabwe.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Bennett, N. C.; Cotterill, F. P. D.; Spinks, A. C. (May 1996), "Thermoregulation in two population of the Matabeleland mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus nimrodi) and remarks on the general thermoregulatory trends within the genus Cryptomys (Rodentia: Bathyergidae)", Journal of Zoology, 239 (1): 17–27, doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1996.tb05433.x