Colburn's tuco-tuco

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Colburn's tuco-tuco
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Ctenomyidae
Genus: Ctenomys
Species:
C. colburni
Binomial name
Ctenomys colburni
J.A. Allen, 1903

Colburn's tuco-tuco (Ctenomys colburni) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. [2] It is known only from Argentina.

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References

  1. ↑ Bidau, C.J. (2019). "Ctenomys colburni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019: e.T5801A22192538. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T5801A22192538.en . Retrieved 18 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. p. 1562. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.


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