Big-headed Mole Rat

Taxobox
name = Big-headed Mole Rat


status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Spalacidae
genus = "Tachyoryctes"
species = "T. macrocephalus"
binomial = "Tachyoryctes macrocephalus"
binomial_authority = (Rüppell, 1842)
synonyms = The Big-headed Mole Rat ("Tachyoryctes macrocephalus") is a species of rodent in the Spalacidae family. It is endemic to Ethiopia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

* Corti, M. & Lavrenchenko, L. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/21293/all Tachyoryctes macrocephalus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 30 July 2007.
*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.