Ctenodactylus

Ctenodactylus
Ctenodactylus gundi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Ctenodactylidae
Genus: Ctenodactylus
J. E. Gray, 1830
Type species
Ctenodactylus massonii [1]
J. E. Gray, 1830
(= Mus gundi Rothmann, 1776)
Species

C. gundi
C. vali

Ctenodactylus distribution
C. gundi in red, C. vali in blue

Ctenodactylus, from Ancient Greek κτείς (kteís), meaning "comb", and δάκτυλος (dáktulos), meaning "finger", is a genus of rodents in the family Ctenodactylidae (comb rats or gundis). It contains the following species :

References

  1. ↑ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  • Dieterlen, F. 2005. Family Ctenodactylidae pp. 1536-1537 in D. E. Wilson and M. A. Reeder, eds. Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, p. 1536.


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