Berg's tuco-tuco

Berg's tuco-tuco
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Ctenomyidae
Genus: Ctenomys
Species: C. bergi
Binomial name
Ctenomys bergi
Thomas, 1902

Berg's tuco-tuco (Ctenomys bergi) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae,[2] named after the Latvian-Argentine biologist Frederico Guillermo Carlos Berg.[3] It is endemic to central Argentina. Its habitat is grassy areas overlying sand dunes.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Bidau, C., Lessa, E. & Ojeda, R. (2008). Ctenomys bergi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 18 March 2009.
  2. ^ 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. 1561. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400282. 
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009-09-28). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 592 (see p. 39). ISBN 978-0801893049. OCLC 270129903. http://google.com/books?id=I-kSmWLc6vYC&pg=PA39.