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. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 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.