Ctenodactylus

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

C. gundi
C. vali

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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