Cryptomys
Genus of rodents
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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.
| Cryptomys Temporal range: Early Pliocene to Recent | |
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| Cryptomys hottentotus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Bathyergidae |
| Genus: | Cryptomys J. E. Gray, 1864 |
| Type species | |
| Georychus holosericeus | |
| Species | |
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Cryptomys hottentotus | |
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)
