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Viscacha Rats
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Viscacha Rats

Tympanoctomys

Tympanoctomys is a genus of rodent in the family Octodontidae. There are three extant species in the genus: T. barrerae, T. kirchnerorum and T. loschalchalerosorum. T. loschalchalerosorum was formerly considered to be monotypic within the genus Salinoctomys, but has been shown by genetic analysis to nest within the variation of T. barrerae.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Plains Viscacha Rat

speciesTympanoctomys barrerae

Kirchner's Viscacha Rat

speciesTympanoctomys kirchnerorum

Chalchalero Viscacha Rat

speciesTympanoctomys loschalchalerosorum

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 45925.