Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Author
Guy G. Musser
Author
Michael D. Carleton
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
501
755
book chapter
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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Calomys callidus
(Thomas, 1916)
.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 17:182
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Argentina
,
Corrientes Prov.
, Goya,
600 ft
.
DISTRIBUTION: EC
Argentina
and E
Paraguay
.
COMMENTS: Diagnosed as a subspecies of C.
venustus
and recognized as such (e.g., Cabrera, 1961) until
Hershkovitz (1962)
placed it in synonymy with C.
callosus callosus
.
Specific status of
callidus
affirmed by
Corti et al. (1987)
, who summarized its distribution and karyotypic discrimination.