Chacoan tuco-tuco

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Chacoan tuco-tuco
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Ctenomyidae
Genus: Ctenomys
Species:
C. dorsalis
Binomial name
Ctenomys dorsalis
Thomas, 1900

The Chacoan tuco-tuco (Ctenomys dorsalis) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. [2] It lives in Bolivia and Paraguay.

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References

  1. ↑ Ojeda, R. (2019). "Ctenomys dorsalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019: e.T5803A22192708. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T5803A22192708.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1538–1600. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.


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