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DURING the past four years I have been compiling a preliminary list of the vertebrate fauna occurring in this National Park, situated in the Inyanga region of eastern Southern Rhodesia. During the course of these investigations it has become clear that the most common representative of the family Bathyergidae is Cryptomys hottentotus Lesson.
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TURNBULL-KEMP, P. Albinism in the Common or Hottentot Mole-Rat, Cryptomys hottentotus Lesson, 1826. Nature 182, 63 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182063a0
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