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Cryptomys Temporal range: Early Pliocene to Recent
Cryptomys hottentotus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Bathyergidae
Genus:	Cryptomys J. E. Gray, 1864
Type species
Georychus holosericeus Wagner, 1842 (= Bathyergus hottentotus Lesson, 1826)
Species
Cryptomys hottentotus Cryptomys mahali Cryptomys natalensis Cryptomys nimrodi Cryptomys pretoriae

Cryptomys is the genus of mole-rats, endemic to Africa. Most of the species formerly placed in this genus were moved to the genus Fukomys in 2006.

Species

The species currently included in this genus are:

• 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)

References

1. 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.
2. "Cryptomys Gray, 1864". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-03-30.

• 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.

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