Goodfellow's tuco-tuco
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| Goodfellow's tuco-tuco | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Ctenomyidae |
| Genus: | Ctenomys |
| Species: | C. goodfellowi |
| Binomial name | |
| Ctenomys goodfellowi Thomas, 1921 |
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Goodfellow's tuco-tuco (Ctenomys goodfellowi) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.[2] It is endemic to Bolivia, where it is found in the Chiquitano dry forest ecoregion, bordering on the cerrado.[1] Its karyotype has 2n = 46 and FN = 68.[2] The species is named after British collector Walter Goodfellow.[3]
References [edit]
- ^ a b Dunnum, J. & Bernal, N. (2008). Ctenomys goodfellowi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
- ^ a b Woods, C. A.; Kilpatrick, C. W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1564. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009-09-28). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 592 (see pp. 158–9). ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9. OCLC 270129903.
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