Matabeleland mole-rat

Matabeleland mole-rat
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Bathyergidae
Genus:	Cryptomys
Species:	C. hottentotus
Subspecies:	C. h. nimrodi
Trinomial name
Cryptomys hottentotus nimrodi (de Winton, 1897)

The Matabeleland mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus nimrodi) is a subspecies of the common mole-rat found in Zimbabwe.^[1]

References

1. Bennett, N. C.; Cotterill, F. P. D.; Spinks, A. C. (May 1996), "Thermoregulation in two population of the Matabeleland mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus nimrodi) and remarks on the general thermoregulatory trends within the genus Cryptomys (Rodentia: Bathyergidae)", Journal of Zoology, 239 (1): 17–27, doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1996.tb05433.x