Magellanic Tuco-tuco

Magellanic Tuco-tuco
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Ctenomyidae
Genus:	Ctenomys
Species:	C. magellanicus
Binomial name
Ctenomys magellanicus Bennett, 1836
Subspecies
C. m. dicki Osgood, 1943 C. m. fueginus Philippi, 1880 C. m. magellanicus Bennett, 1836 C. m. osgoodi Allen, 1905

The Magellanic Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys magellanicus) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is found in Argentina and Chile. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. Also known as the cururo by the Ona culture of Tierra del Fuego.

References

1. ^ Bidau, C., Lessa, E. & Ojeda, R. (2008). Ctenomys magellanicus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.

• Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. pp 1538–1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
• Wilson, David. Indigenous South Americans of the Past and Present. Westview Press, 1999.