Biology:Forest tuco-tuco
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Short description: Species of rodent
| Forest tuco-tuco | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Ctenomyidae |
| Genus: | Ctenomys |
| Species: | C. sylvanus
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| Binomial name | |
| Ctenomys sylvanus Thomas, 1919
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The forest tuco-tuco (Ctenomys sylvanus) was formerly considered a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.[2] It is endemic to Salta and southeast Jujuy Provinces in northwest Argentina .[1] The IUCN currently recognizes it as a subspecies of C. frater.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bidau, C.; Lessa, E.; Ojeda, R. (2008). "Ctenomys sylvanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/136595/0. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
- ↑ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1569. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400351.
- ↑ Vivar, E. (2017). "Ctenomys frater". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T115553730A123796865. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/115553730/123796865. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
Wikidata ☰ Q1767342 entry
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