Highland Tuco-tuco

Highland Tuco-tuco
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Ctenomyidae
Genus: Ctenomys
Species: C. opimus
Binomial name
Ctenomys opimus
Wagner, 1848
Subspecies

C. o. luteolus Thomas, 1900
C. o. nigriceps Thomas, 1900
C. o. opimus Wagner, 1848

The Highland Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys opimus) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.[2] It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.

References

  1. ^ Dunnum, J., Vargas, J., Bernal, N., Zeballos, N., Vivar, E. & Patterson, B. (2008). Ctenomys opimus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 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.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400332.