Peruvian Tuco-tuco
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| Peruvian Tuco-tuco | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Ctenomyidae |
| Genus: | Ctenomys |
| Species: | C. peruanus |
| Binomial name | |
| Ctenomys peruanus Sanborn & Pearson, 1947 |
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The Peruvian Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys peruanus) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is endemic to Peru.
[edit] References
- ^ Zeballos, H. & Vivar, E. (2008). Ctenomys peruanus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.
- Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. pp 1538–1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
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