Flamarion's tuco-tuco

Appearance

The species has a light coloration and is morphologically more robust than other tuco-tuco species in southern Brazil.

Range and habitat

Flamarion's tuco-tuco is an endemic species of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. It inhabits the first line of dunes on the coastal plain of the state, and its distribution extends from Arroio Teixeira beach in Capão da Canoa, on the northern coast, to Chuí, on the border with Uruguay, on the southern coast. It is endemic to the coastal dunes of Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

In crisis

The species is threatened by habitat loss due to dune removal and urbanization. The populations of this species have been increasingly impacted by continuous changes in their habitat, particularly in the northern coast of Rio Grande do Sul. The main threat is the removal of the first line of dunes, a practice aimed at urbanization and real estate speculation along the coast, that results in the degradation of this environment.

In addition to human impacts on the dunes, such as trampling and litter deposition, the presence of domestic species, forestry (planting of Pinus species), and monocultures may also threaten the species' survival in the area.

Flamarion's tuco-tuco is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Flamarion's tuco-tuco, Wikidata item Q1765606. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.