Penial morphology in three species of Brazilian Tuco-tucos, Ctenomys torquatus, C. minutus, and C. flamarioni (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) Morfologia peniana de três espécies de tuco-tuco do Brasil - Ctenomys torquatus, C. minutus e C. flamarioni (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae)

The present study analyses the glans penis and baculum morphology of three Brazilian tuco-tucos, Ctenomys torquatus Lichtenstein, 1830, Ctenomys minutus Nehring, 1887 and Ctenomys flamarioni Travi, 1981, in order to identify possible variations and understand some more about this taxonomically compl...

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Main Authors: O. Rocha-Barbosa, JSL. Bernardo, MFC. Loguercio, TRO. Freitas, JR. Santos-Mallet, CJ. Bidau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia 2013-02-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842013000100022