Ruanda Mole Rat

Taxobox
name = Ruanda Mole Rat


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Spalacidae
genus = "Tachyoryctes"
species = "T. ruandae"
binomial = "Tachyoryctes ruandae"
binomial_authority = Lönnberg & Gyldenstolpe, 1925
synonyms = The Ruanda Mole Rat ("Tachyoryctes ruandae") is a species of rodent in the Spalacidae family. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, arable land, pastureland, plantations , rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest.

References

*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.
* Schlitter, D., Corti, M. & Agwanda, B. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/21296/all Tachyoryctes ruandae] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 30 July 2007.