Forest tuco-tuco | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Ctenomyidae |
Genus: | Ctenomys |
Species: | C. sylvanus
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Binomial name | |
Ctenomys sylvanus
Thomas, 1919
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The forest tuco-tuco (Ctenomys sylvanus) was formerly considered a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. [2] It is endemic to Salta and southeast Jujuy Provinces in northwest Argentina. [1] The IUCN currently recognizes it as a subspecies of C. frater. [3]
Forest tuco-tuco | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Ctenomyidae |
Genus: | Ctenomys |
Species: | C. sylvanus
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Binomial name | |
Ctenomys sylvanus
Thomas, 1919
|
The forest tuco-tuco (Ctenomys sylvanus) was formerly considered a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. [2] It is endemic to Salta and southeast Jujuy Provinces in northwest Argentina. [1] The IUCN currently recognizes it as a subspecies of C. frater. [3]