Heterocephalus glaber
Rüppell, 1842
Naked Mole-rat
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Rodentia |
| Suborder | : Hystricomorpha |
| Infraorder | : Hystricognathi |
| Superfamily | : incertae sedis |
| Family | : Heterocephalidae |
| Genus | : Heterocephalus |
Species status
Authority citation
Rüppell, E. 1842. Säugethiere aus der Ordnung der Nager, beobachtet im nordöstlichen Africa. Museum Senckenbergianum 3(2):91-116.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45886762Original name as described
Heterocephalus glaber
Other common names
Desert Mole Rat · Sand Puppy
Type material
SMF:MAMM:855
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
"Abyssinien und Schoa" (= Ethiopia and [central province of] Shewa).
Biogeographic realm
Afrotropic
Country distribution
Djibouti · Ethiopia · Somalia · Kenya
Taxonomy notes
may represent two species, although further research is needed to confirm this hypothesis; moved from Bathyergidae to the recently erected Heterocephalidae
Taxonomy notes citation
Patterson BD, Upham NS (2014). "A newly recognized family from the Horn of Africa, the Heterocephalidae (Rodentia: Ctenohystrica)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 172 (4): 942–963. · Zemlemerova, E. D., Kostin, D. S., Gromov, A. R., Martynov, A. A., Alexsandrov, D. Y., & Lavrenchenko, L. A. (2020). Preliminary Data on Phylogeography of the Naked Mole-Rat Heterocephalus glaber (Rodentia: Heterocephalidae). Russian Journal of Genetics, 56, 370-374. · Zemlemerova, E. D., Kostin, D. S., Lebedev, V. S., Martynov, A. A., Gromov, A. R., Alexandrov, D. Y., & Lavrenchenko, L. A. (2020). Genetic diversity of the naked mole‐rat (Heterocephalus glaber). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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