Highland Tuco-tuco

Highland 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. opimus
Binomial name
Ctenomys opimus Wagner, 1848
Subspecies
C. o. luteolus Thomas, 1900 C. o. nigriceps Thomas, 1900 C. o. opimus Wagner, 1848

The Highland Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys opimus) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.

References

1. ^ Dunnum, J., Vargas, J., Bernal, N., Zeballos, N., Vivar, E. & Patterson, B. (2008). Ctenomys opimus. 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.