Ctenomys azarae Thomas 1903

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Ctenomyidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1560-1570 : 1561

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scientific name	Ctenomys azarae Thomas 1903
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Ctenomys azarae Thomas 1903 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 11: 228.

Type Locality: Argentina, Central Pampas, 780 km SW Buenos Aires (37 o 45’S, 65 o W). Type location originally given as Sapucay, Paraguay ( Thomas, 1903) but corrected to 780 km SW Buenos Aires by Thomas (1903). The type locality corresponds approximately to General Acha, La Pampa Province (Tate, 1935) .

Vernacular Names: Azara's Tuco-tuco.

Distribution: Córdoba and La Pampa Provs. ( Argentina).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Cabrera (1961) synonymized azarae under mendocinus . Considered distinct from mendocinus by Roig and Reig (1969). Placed in the mendocinus group by Massarini et al. (1991 a). Karyotype has 2n=46-48 and FN=68-74 ( Massarini et al., 1998). Topotypes of azarae , mendocinus and porteousi have G-band equivalence and these three taxa share a Robertsonian polymorphism leading Massarini et al. (1998) to suggest that azarae and porteousi may be conspecific with mendocinus .

References

Massarini, A. I., M. A. Barros, M. O. Ortells, and O. A. Reig. 1991 a. Chromosomal polymorphism and small karyotypic differences in a group of Ctenomys species from Central Argentina (Rodentia: Octodontidae). Genetica, 83: 131 - 144.

Massarini, A. I., F. J. Dyzenchauz, and S. I. Tiranti. 1998. Geographic variation of chromosomal polymorphism in nine populations of Ctenomys azarae, tuco-tucos of the Ctenomys mendocinus group (Rodentia: Octodontidae). Hereditas, 128: 207 - 211.

Roig, V. G., and O. A. Reig. 1969. Precipitin test relationships among Argentinian species of the genus Ctenomys (Rodentia, Octodontidae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 30: 665 - 672.

Thomas, O. 1903. Notes on Neotropical mammals of the genera Felis, Hapale, Oryzomys, Akodon, and Ctenomys, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 12: 234 - 243.