Berg's tuco-tuco
Berg's tuco-tuco | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Ctenomyidae |
Genus: | Ctenomys |
Species: | C. bergi
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Binomial name | |
Ctenomys bergi Thomas, 1902
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Berg's tuco-tuco (Ctenomys bergi) is a species of
Ctenomyidae,[2] named after the Latvian-Argentine biologist Frederico Guillermo Carlos Berg.[3] It is endemic to northwestern Córdoba Province in central Argentina.[2] Its habitat is grassy areas overlying sand dunes.[1] The species is threatened by the degradation and severe fragmentation of its small habitat.[1]