Somali golden mole

Somali golden mole
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Afrosoricida
Family:	Chrysochloridae
Genus:	Calcochloris
Species:	C. tytonis
Binomial name
Calcochloris tytonis (Simonetta, 1968)
Somali golden mole range
Synonyms
Amblysomus tytonis Chlorotalpa tytonis

The Somali golden mole (Calcochloris tytonis) is a golden mole endemic to Somalia. This mole is known only from a fragment of jaw bone and ear bones discovered by Dr. Alberto Simonetta of the University of Florence in a barn owl pellet in Giohar, Somalia in 1964.^[2]

References

1. Bronner, G. (2008). "Calcochloris tytonis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 29 December 2008.
2. Girling, Richard (2014). The Hunt for the Golden Mole: All Creatures Great and Small and Why They Matter. UK: Chatto & Windus. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-61902-450-2.

• Bronner, G.N.; Jenkins, P.D. (2005). "Order Afrosoricida". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.