Vipos tuco-tuco

Vipos tuco-tuco
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Ctenomyidae
Genus: Ctenomys
Species: C. viperinus
Binomial name
Ctenomys viperinus
Thomas, 1926

The Vipos tuco-tuco (Ctenomys viperinus) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.[2] It is endemic to northern Tucumán Province in northern Argentina. It's common name is a reference to the city of Vipos in the area.

References

  1. ^ Bidau, C., Lessa, E. & Ojeda, R. (2008). Ctenomys viperinus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 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. 1570. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400364.