Maule Tuco-tuco

Maule 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. maulinus
Binomial name
Ctenomys maulinus Philippi, 1872
Subspecies
C. m. brunneus Osgood, 1943 C. m. maulinus Philippi, 1872

The Maule Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys maulinus) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is found in Argentina and Chile.

References

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