White-toothed Tuco-tuco

White-toothed 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. leucodon
Binomial name
Ctenomys leucodon Waterhouse, 1848

The white-toothed tuco-tuco (Ctenomys leucodon) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is found in Bolivia and Peru.

References

1. ^ Dunnum, J., Bernal, N., Zeballos, H. & Vivar, E. (2008). Ctenomys leucodon. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.

• Woods, Charles A.; Kilpatrick, C. William (16 November 2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi (pp. 1538-1600)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 1565. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400317.