Talas Tuco-tuco

Talas Tuco-tuco
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Ctenomyidae
Genus:	Ctenomys
Species:	C. talarum
Binomial name
Ctenomys talarum Thomas, 1898
Subspecies
C. t. antonii Thomas, 1910 C. t. occidentalis Justo, 1992 C. t. recessus (Thomas, 1912 C. t. talarum Thomas, 1898

The Talas Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys talarum) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is endemic to Argentina.

References

1. ^ Bidau, C., Lessa, E. & Ojeda, R. (2008). Ctenomys talarum. 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.