Mole Rats

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^[2]

• 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 hottentotus (Lesson, 1826)
• Cryptomys kafuensis (Burda, Zima, Scharff, Macholán & Kawalika, 1999)
• Cryptomys mechowi (Peters, 1881)
• Cryptomys natalensis (Roberts, 1913)
• Cryptomys ochraceocinereus (Heuglin, 1864)
• Cryptomys zechi (Matschie, 1900)

References

• 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.