Kirchner's viscacha rat

Kirchner's viscacha rat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Octodontidae
Genus: Tympanoctomys
Species: T. kirchnerorum
Binomial name
Tympanoctomys kirchnerorum
Teta, Pardiñas, Sauthier & Gallardo, 2014

Kirchner's viscacha rat or Kirchner's vizcacha rat (Tympanoctomys kirchnerorum) is a species of rodents in the family Octodontidae described in 2014.[2] It is one of two species in the genus Tympanoctomys.[2][3] That species is endemic to Chubut Province in the central western Argentina, where it has a fragmented range. Its natural habitat is desert scrubland, dunes and salt flats, where it eats halophyte plants. It is a solitary, nocturnal rodent that constructs large mounds with complex burrows.[2] The species was named in honor if both Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Néstor Kirchner, presidents of Argentina.

References

  1. ↑ Roach, N. (2016). "Tympanoctomys kirchnerorum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 Pablo Teta, Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas, Daniel E. Udrizar Sauthier i Milton H. Gallardo (2014), "A new species of the tetraploid vizcacha rat Tympanoctomys (Caviomorpha, Octodontidae) from central Patagonia, Argentina", Journal of Mammalogy, 95 (1): 60–71, doi:10.1644/13-MAMM-A-160
  3. ↑ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1573. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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