D'Orbigny's tuco-tuco (''Ctenomys dorbignyi'') is a species of
rodent in the family
Ctenomyidae
A tuco-tuco is a neotropical rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.Parada, A., G. D’Elia, C.J. Bidau, and E.P. Lessa. 2011. Species Groups and the Evolutionary Diversification of Tuco-Tucos, genus ''Ctenomys'' (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae). ''Journal of M ...
,
named after French naturalist
Alcide d'Orbigny.
It is found in northeast
Argentina. Its
karyotype
A karyotype is the general appearance of the complete set of metaphase chromosomes in the cells of a species or in an individual organism, mainly including their sizes, numbers, and shapes. Karyotyping is the process by which a karyotype is disce ...
has
2n = 70,
FN = 84–88, which is cytogenetically indistinguishable from some populations of ''
C. pearsoni''; the latter taxon may actually represent several species.
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References
Mammals of Argentina
Tuco-tucos
Mammals described in 1984
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