Cryptomys

Cryptomys is the genus of mole-rats, endemic to Africa.^[1] Most of the species formerly placed in this genus were moved to the genus Fukomys in 2006.

Cryptomys Temporal range: Early Pliocene to Recent
Cryptomys hottentotus
Scientific classification
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

Species

The species currently included in this genus are:^[2]

• 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)