CHRYSOCHLORIDAE (Gray, 1825) Gray, 1825

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2018, Chrysochloridae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 8 Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 180-203 : 180

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6624497

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6624199

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CD879C-5A77-9803-FEA7-FDADE8EAFA89

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Valdenar

scientific name

CHRYSOCHLORIDAE
status

 

Family CHRYSOCHLORIDAE View in CoL

(GOLDEN MOLES)

• Small fusiform body shape, short limbs, no visible tail, eyes covered in skin and notvisible, no visible ear pinnae, and variable pelage color.

* 8-23 cm. View Figure

• Afrotropical Region. View Figure

• Subterranean in subtropical and tropical deserts, grasslands, and forests from sea level into mountains.

• 10 genera, 21 species, 42 taxa.

•] species Critically Endangered, 5 Endangered, 4 Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Afrosoricida

SubOrder

Chrysochloridea

Family

Chrysochloridae

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