Forest tuco-tuco
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| Forest tuco-tuco | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Ctenomyidae |
| Genus: | Ctenomys |
| Species: | C. sylvanus |
| Binomial name | |
| Ctenomys sylvanus Thomas, 1919 |
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The forest tuco-tuco (Ctenomys sylvanus) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.[2] It is endemic to Salta and southeast Jujuy Provinces in northwest Argentina.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Bidau, C., Lessa, E. & Ojeda, R. (2008). Ctenomys sylvanus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 March 2009.
- ^ Woods, Charles A.; Kilpatrick, C. William (16 November 2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi (pp. 1538-1600)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 1569. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400351.
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