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Chrysochloridae Gray 1825
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Description
Family CHRYSOCHLORIDAE
(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.
• Afrotropical Region.
• 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.
Notes
Published as part of Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2018, Chrysochloridae, pp. 180-203 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 8 Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 180, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6624497
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chrysochloridae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Afrosoricida
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysochloridae Gray, 1825 sec. Mittermeier & Wilson, 2018