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Heterocephalus (naked mole-rat)
Taxonomy
Heterocephalus was named by Rüppell (1842). It is extant.
It was assigned to Bathyergidae by Honeycutt et al. (1987) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Bathyergidae by Honeycutt et al. (1987) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1842 | Heterocephalus Rüppell p. 99 |
1987 | Heterocephalus Honeycutt et al. p. 280 |
1997 | Heterocephalus McKenna and Bell |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Heterocephalus Rüppell 1842 [naked mole-rat]
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Heterocephalus glaber Rüppell 1842 [naked mole rat]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Samuels and Van Valkenburgh 2008, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979 |
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Piacenzian to the top of the Calabrian or 3.60000 to 0.77400 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma
Collections (14 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Pliocene | Tanzania (Eastern Drift Valley) | Heterocephalus quenstedti (32050) | |
Piacenzian | Tanzania | Heterocephalus quenstedti (21793 21798 21799 21800 21810 21811 21831) | |
Gelasian | Ethiopia | Heterocephalus atikoi (21545 21625 21681) | |
Calabrian | Tanzania | Heterocephalus sp. (22041 22064 22621) |