Heliophobius argenteocinereus Peters 1846

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Bathyergidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1538-1542 : 1541

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scientific name	Heliophobius argenteocinereus Peters 1846
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Heliophobius argenteocinereus Peters 1846 , Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 11: 259.

Type Locality: Mozambique, Tete (on the Zambezi River).

Vernacular Names: Silvery Mole-rat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Heliophobius argenteocinereus subsp. argenteocinereus Peters 1846

Subspecies Heliophobius argenteocinereus subsp. albifrons Gray 1864

Subspecies Heliophobius argenteocinereus subsp. angonicus Thomas 1917

Subspecies Heliophobius argenteocinereus subsp. emini Noack 1894

Subspecies Heliophobius argenteocinereus subsp. kapiti Heller 1909

Subspecies Heliophobius argenteocinereus subsp. marungensis Noack 1887

Subspecies Heliophobius argenteocinereus subsp. mottoulei Schouteden 1913

Subspecies Heliophobius argenteocinereus subsp. robustus Thomas 1906

Subspecies Heliophobius argenteocinereus subsp. spalax Thomas 1910

Distribution: Zimbabwe, E Zambia, and N Mozambique to Dem. Rep. Congo, Kenya, and N Tanzania.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Honeycutt et al. (1991:54-55) concluded that the characters used to separate H. spalax from H. argenteocinereus are due to age variation, and that the genus is monotypic. See also de Graaff (1975, 1981) who considered the species polytypic with nine subspecies. Karyotype of specimens from Kenya has 2n=60 and FN=114 ( George, 1979 b) whereas specimens from Zambia have 2n=62 and FN=114 ( Scharff et al., 2001).