ctenomyid

English

Ctenomys flamarioni

Noun

ctenomyid (plural ctenomyids)

1. (zoology) Any rodent of the family Ctenomyidae.
   • 1979, Richard F. Johnston, Peter W. Frank, Charles Duncan Michener, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, volume 10, page 271:

     New adaptive radiations of small fossorial rodents followed, including crice- tids in the Pliocene and spalacids and ctenomyids primarily in the Pleistocene.

   • 2000, Cristina Busch, C. Daniel Antinuchi, J. Cristina del Valle, Marcelo J. Kittlein, Ana I. Malizia, Aldo I. Vassallo, Roxana R. Zenuto, “Chapter 5: Population Ecology of Subterranean Rodents”, in Eileen A. Lacey, James L. Patton, Guy N. Cameron, editors, Life Underground: The Biology of Subterranean Rodents, page 191:

     Foraging by geomyids and ctenomyids is more generalized in that all portions of plants may be consumed.

   • 2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, page 231:

     Ctenomyids first appear in the late Miocene of South America.

Synonyms

• (any species of family Ctenomyidae): tuco-tuco (extant species)