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Overview:

Critically Endangered

Conservation Status

IUCN Red List: CR Critically Endangered

Population Trend:

Unknown

History:

• 1988-Insufficiently Known (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
• 1990-Indeterminate (IUCN 1990)
• 1994-Indeterminate (Groombridge 1994)
• 1996-Vulnerable (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Threats:

• 1.3.1 Habitat Loss/Degradation - Extraction - Mining (ongoing)
• 1.4.3 Habitat Loss/Degradation - Infrastructure development - Tourism/recreation (ongoing)
• 9.1 Intrinsic factors - Limited dispersal (ongoing)
• 9.9 Intrinsic factors - Restricted range (ongoing)

For info on these threat codes, see here.

Justification

Known from only a single locality. Mining for alluvial diamonds is a potential major threat to habitat, minor threat is coastal development for tourism. Considered threatened (cf. Data Deficient) as no specimens have been collected for nearly a century. The existing evidence is that it is a valid species, and occurs in an area of high threat, so is listed as Critically Endangered.

Taxonomy

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 28-Nov-2006

Physical Description

Distribution

Range and Population

Africa

Habitat

Biome

Terrestrial

Ecology

This species inhabits white coastal sand dunes. Burrows to just beneath the surface to shelter and bring up young. Legless lizards and other invertebrates form the main part of the diet.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Cryptochloris:

There are approximately 3 species and subspecies in this genus: C. vittata · C. wintoni (De Winton's Golden Mole) · C. zyli (Van Zyl's Golden Mole)

Bibliography

• Afrotheria Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website
• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• Meester J. 1974. Family Chrysochloridae. In: Meester J. and Setzer, H.W. (eds). The mammals of Africa: an identification manual. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
• Nowak, R.M. (ed.) 1999. Walkers Mammals of the World. Sixth edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London.
• Rainer Hutterer: Status: IUCN - Indeterminate
• Simonetta A.M. 1968. A new golden mole from Somalia with an appendix on the taxonomy of the family Chrysochloridae (Mammalia, Insectivora). Monitore zoologici Italiano, Supplement 2: 27 and ndash;55.
• Smithers R.H.N. 1986. South African Red Data Book - Terrestrial Mammals. South African National Scientific Programmes Report 125: 1 and ndash;216.
• Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds). 1993. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC, USA. xviii + 1207. ISBN: 1-56098-217-9.

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Notes

Contributors:

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Bronner, G. (Afrotheria Specialist Group) 2006. Cryptochloris wintoni. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 14 January 2007.
• Insectivore Specialist Group 1996. Cryptochloris wintoni. In: IUCN 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.redlist.org . Downloaded on 30 January 2005.

Identifiers:

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 633531
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 1732008
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3571