Lewis's Tuco-tuco

Lewis's 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. lewisi
Binomial name
Ctenomys lewisi Thomas, 1926

Lewis's Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys lewisi) is a species of rodent in the Ctenomyidae family. It is endemic to Bolivia.

References

1. ^ Dunnum, J. & Bernal, N. (2008). Ctenomys lewisi. 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.