Ctenomys yatesi

S. L. Gardner, Salazar-Bravo, & J. A. Cook, 2014

Yates's 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

Authority citation

Gardner, S.L., Salazar-Bravo, J. and Cook, J.A. 2014. New species of Ctenomys Blainville 1826 (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) from the lowlands and central valleys of Bolivia. Special Publications, Museum of Texas Tech University 62:1-34.

Original name as described

Ctenomys yatesi

Type material

AMNH M-260835

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Bolivia, Department of Santa Cruz, 7 km N and 38 km W of Roboré, 18°16' S, 60°07' W, 550 m elevation."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Bolivia

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Gardner, S. L., J. Salazar- Bravo, and J. A. Cook. 2014. New species of Ctenomys Blainville 1826 (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) from the lowlands and central valleys of Bolivia. Special Publications of the Museum 62. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1– 34.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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