Bolivian Tuco-tuco

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Bolivian Tuco-tuco
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Ctenomyidae
Genus: Ctenomys
Species: C. boliviensis
Binomial name
Ctenomys boliviensis
Waterhouse, 1848

The Bolivian Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys boliviensis) is a species of rodent in the Ctenomyidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Ctenomys boliviensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
  • 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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