Ctenomys johannis

O. Thomas, 1921

San Juan Tuco-tuco

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Hystricomorpha
Infraorder : Hystricognathi
Superfamily : Octodontoidea
Family : Ctenomyidae
Genus : Ctenomys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1921-06-01. The tuco-tuco of San Juan, Argentina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)7(42):523-524.

Original name as described

Ctenomys coludo johannis

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1921.4.8.5

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Department of San Juan. Type from Canãda Honda. Alt. 500 m," (31°59' S, 68°33' W), San Juan Province, Argentina.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Argentina

Taxonomy notes

recently suggested to be a synonym of C. mendocinus, but the data used to support this conflicts with similar data from other recent publication; the species is tentatively retained here pending more integrative taxonomic revisions

Taxonomy notes citation

Teta, P., Jayat, J. P., Alvarado-Larios, R., Ojeda, A. A., Cuello, P., & D’Elía, G. (2023). An appraisal of the species richness of the Ctenomys mendocinus species group (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae), with the description of two new species from the Andean slopes of west-central Argentina. Vertebrate Zoology, 73, 451-474. · Tammone, M. N., Voglino, D., Cuéllar Soto, E., & Pardiñas, U. F. (2024). Resolving the taxonomic status of Ctenomys paramilloensis (Rodentia, Ctenomyidae), an Andean nominal form from Mendoza Province, Argentina. Mammalia, (0).

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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