Pearson's Tuco-tuco

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Pearson's Tuco-tuco
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Ctenomyidae Genus: Ctenomys Species: C. pearsoni
Binomial name
Ctenomys pearsoni Lessa & Langguth, 1983

Pearson's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys pearsoni) is a species of rodent in the Ctenomyidae family. It is endemic to Uruguay.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Ctenomys pearsoni. 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.

v • d • e Extant species of family Ctenomyidae Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Mammalia · Order: Rodentia · Suborder: Hystricomorpha · Infraorder: Hystricognathi · Parvorder: Caviomorpha Ctenomys Argentine Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys argentinus) · Azara's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys azarae) · Bolivian Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys boliviensis) · Bonetto's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys bonettoi) · Brazilian Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys brasiliensis) · Catamarca Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys knighti) · Chacoan Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys dorsalis) · Colburn's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys colburni) · Collared Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys torquatus) · Conover's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys conoveri) · Emily's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys emilianus) · Flammarion's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys flammarioni) · Forest Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys frater) · Furtive Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys occultus) · Goya Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys perrensis) · Haig's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys haigi) · Highland Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys opimus) · Lewis's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys lewisi) · Magellanic Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys magellanicus) · Maule Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys maulinus) · Mendoza Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys mendocinus) · Mottled Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys latro) · Natterer's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys nattereri) · Pearson's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys pearsoni) · Peruvian Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys peruanus) · Porteous's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys porteousi) · Rio Negro's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys rionegrensis) · Robust Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys tuconax) · Salta Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys saltarius) · San Luis Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys pontifex) · Silky Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys sericeus) · Social Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys sociabilis) · Southern Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys australis) · Steinbach's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys steinbachi) · Strong Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys validus) · Talas Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys talarum) · Tawny Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys fulvus) · Tiny Tucu-tuco (Ctenomys minutus) · Tucuman Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys tucumanus) · White-toothed Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys leucodon) Category