Family CTENOMYIDAE

(TUCO-TUCOS)

• Smallto medium-sized subterranean rodents, with large heads, small eyes and ears, heavily built cylindrical bodies, short legs, and hairy thick and short tails.

• 15-65 cm. • Neotropical Region.

• Sand fields, dunes, and forests.

• 1 genus, 69 species, 83 taxa.

• 3 species Critically Endangered, 6 species Endangered, 6 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.