Lago Blanco tuco-tuco

      Lago Blanco tuco-tuco
      Conservation status
      Scientific classification
      Kingdom: Animalia
      Phylum: Chordata
      Class: Mammalia
      Order: Rodentia
      Family: Ctenomyidae
      Genus: Ctenomys
      Species: C. fodax
      Binomial name
      Ctenomys fodax
      Thomas, 1910

      The Lago Blanco tuco-tuco (Ctenomys fodax) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.[2] It is known only from the Lago Blanco area in southern Argentina.[1] Its karyotype has 2n = 28 and FN = 42.[2]

      References

      1. ^ a b Bidau, C., Lessa, E. & Ojeda, R. (2008). Ctenomys fodax. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 18 March 2009.
      2. ^ a b 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. 1564. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. 
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