Forest tuco-tuco

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Forest tuco-tuco
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Ctenomyidae
Genus: Ctenomys
Species: C. sylvanus
Binomial name
Ctenomys sylvanus
Thomas, 1919

The forest tuco-tuco (Ctenomys sylvanus) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.[2] It is endemic to Salta and southeast Jujuy Provinces in northwest Argentina.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Bidau, C., Lessa, E. & Ojeda, R. (2008). Ctenomys sylvanus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
  2. Woods, C. A.; Kilpatrick, C. W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1569. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. 
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