Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Ctenomyidae > Ctenomys > Ctenomys mendocinusCtenomys mendocinus (Mendoza tuco-tuco)The Mendoza tuco-tuco (Ctenomys mendocinus) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 6.09 EDGE Score: 1.96 |
Adult Weight [1] | 163 grams | Female Weight [3] | 145 grams | Male Weight [3] | 181 grams | Weight Dimorphism [3] | 24.8 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Female Maturity [1] | 7 months 3 days | Male Maturity [1] | 7 months 3 days | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Gestation [1] | 3 months 1 day | Litter Size [3] | 3 | Maximum Longevity [1] | 2 years |
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Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Dry Chaco |
Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Espinal |
Argentina |
Neotropic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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High Monte |
Argentina |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Humid Pampas |
Argentina |
Neotropic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Low Monte |
Argentina |
Neotropic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Patagonian steppe |
Chile, Argentina |
Neotropic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Southern Andean steppe |
Argentina, Chile |
Neotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Southern Andean Yungas |
Bolivia, Argentina |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
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Tropical Andes |
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 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 ♦ 3Ctenomys mendocinus, María I. Rosi, Mónica I. Cona, Virgilio G. Roig, Alicia I. Massarini, and Diego H. Verzi, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 777, pp. 1-6 (2005) ♦ 4International Flea DatabaseEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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