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Ctenomys australis (southern tuco-tuco)

Wikipedia Abstract

The southern tuco-tuco (Ctenomys australis) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is endemic to Argentina.
View Wikipedia Record: Ctenomys australis

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Ctenomys australis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
44
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.58
EDGE Score: 3.6
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  361.5 grams
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Humid Pampas Argentina Neotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Prey / Diet

Panicum racemosum[3]
Poa bonariensis[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Ctenomys talarum (Tuco-tuco)2

Predators

Asio flammeus (Short-eared Owl)[4]
Buteo polyosoma (Variable Hawk)[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Dietary preferences of two sympatric subterranean rodent populations in Argentina, VIVIANA M. COMPARATORE, M. SILVIA CID and CRISTINA BUSCH, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 68: 197-206, 1995
♦ 4Ctenomys talarum, Enrique R. Justo, Luciano J. M. De Santis, and Marta S. Kin, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 730, pp. 1–5 (2003)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0