Budin's tuco-tuco

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

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| name = Budin's tuco-tuco

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn|author=Bidau, C.|author2=Lessa, E.|author3=Ojeda, R.|year=2008|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/136694/0|title=Ctenomys budini|access-date=18 March 2009}}

| genus = Ctenomys

| species = budini

| authority = Thomas, 1913

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Budin's tuco-tuco (Ctenomys budini) was formerly considered a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.{{MSW3 Hystricognathi | id = 13400288 | page = 1562}} It is endemic to southeast Jujuy Province in northwest Argentina. Given the extensive human presence in its limited range, it has been suspected to be threatened. The IUCN and ASM currently view it as a subspecies of C. frater.{{cite iucn |author=Vivar, E. |year=2017|title= Ctenomys frater |errata= 2018 |page= e.T115553730A123796865 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T115553730A115553734.en|access-date = 26 December 2019}}{{cite taxon |asm |id=1001326 |genus=Ctenomys |species=budini |version=2.1 |access-date=25 April 2025}} It was named after Emilio Budin, an Argentine specimen collector who worked with Oldfield Thomas.{{Cite book

| last = Beolens | first = Bo |author2=Watkins, Michael |author3=Grayson, Michael

| title = The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals

| publisher = The Johns Hopkins University Press

| date = 2009-09-28 | location = Baltimore | page = 62

| url = http://google.com/books?id=I-kSmWLc6vYC&pg=PA62

| isbn = 978-0-8018-9304-9| oclc = 270129903}} Some authors consider it to be a synonym of Ctenomys frater.{{Cite web |title=Ctenomys budini Thomas, 1913 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4263398 |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}}