Embi African mole-rat
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Species of rodent
| Embi mole-rat | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Spalacidae |
| Genus: | Tachyoryctes |
| Species: | T. spalacinus
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| Binomial name | |
| Tachyoryctes spalacinus | |
The Embi mole-rat (Tachyoryctes spalacinus) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae endemic to Kenya. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, moist savanna, arable land, pastureland, plantations, and heavily degraded former forest.
Some taxonomic authorities consider it to be conspecific with the East African mole-rat.
References
[edit ]- ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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