tuco-tucos
ctenomyidae latin

The tuco-tucos belong to a single genus: Ctenomys, but they include some 60 different species.

Tuco-tucos are heavily built with short legs.

The tuco-tucos are members of a group of rodents that belong to the family Ctenomyidae.

The most commonly recorded prey includes cavies, tuco-tucos, rabbits, mice and páramo rats.

Owl predation on two sympatric species of tuco-tucos (Rodentia: Octodontidae).

Ctenomyidae (tuco-tucos)

Like other fossorial rodents such as pocket gophers, tuco-tucos, and blind mole rats, blesmols appear to speciate rapidly.

Family Ctenomyidae: tuco-tucos (South America)

Tuco-tucos (ctenomyids)

Older literature includes the tuco-tucos in the family, as the subfamily Ctenomyinae, but these animals are normally now treated as a separate family, Ctenomyidae.

Like other tuco-tucos it is subterranean and thus not often observed, although the "tuc-tuc" call of the males can be heard near burrow sites, especially in early morning.

The tuco-tucos of South America have an ecological role equivalent to that of the pocket gophers of North America.

They represent a distinct evolution of a subterranean life among rodents much like the pocket gophers of North America, the tuco-tucos in South America, or the Spalacidae.

Some molecular work, suggests that, despite their appearance, they may be more closely related to octodontoids such as degus, nutria, and tuco-tucos than they are to chinchillas and viscachas.

Due to its diverse ecosystems, many species of animals, such as Rufous Hornero, turtles, tuco-tucos, capibaras, coypus, broad-snouted caimans and a considerable amount of birds are found here.

Meanwhile ecologies included burrowing gopher-like forms such as tuco-tucos, arboreal forms such as porcupines and certain spiny rats, running forms such as maras and aquatic forms such as the capybara and nutria.

The tuco-tucos are members of a group of rodents that belong to the family Ctenomyidae.

The strong tuco-tuco (Ctenomys validus) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.

Rodentia, Ctenomyidae).

Family Ctenomyidae: tuco-tucos (South America)

Older literature includes the tuco-tucos in the family, as the subfamily Ctenomyinae, but these animals are normally now treated as a separate family, Ctenomyidae.

Berg's tuco-tuco (Ctenomys bergi) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae, named after the Latvian-Argentine biologist Frederico Guillermo Carlos Berg.

Relaciones de los Phthiraptera (Insecta, Amblycera, Gyropidae) con la evolucio'n taxon 'mica de los roedores del ge'nero Ctenomys (Mammalia: Rodentia, Caviomorpha: Ctenomyidae).

Identificacio'n de las especies de Gyropidae (Phthiraptera, Amblycera) para'sitas de Ctenomyidae (Rodentia) de la Provincia de Buenos Aires , Argentina , en base a la morfologı'a corio'nica externa de los huevos.