Budin's tuco-tuco

Budin's tuco-tuco
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Ctenomyidae
Genus: Ctenomys
Species: C. budini
Binomial name
Ctenomys budini
Thomas, 1913

Budin's tuco-tuco (Ctenomys budini) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.[2] It is endemic to northern Argentina. It is viewed as possibly being a subspecies of C. frater.[1] The species is named after Emilio Budin, an Argentine specimen collector who worked with Oldfield Thomas.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Bidau, C., Lessa, E. & Ojeda, R. (2008). Ctenomys budini. 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. 1562. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400288. 
  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. 62). ISBN 978-0801893049. OCLC 270129903. http://google.com/books?id=I-kSmWLc6vYC&pg=PA62.