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)
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755
book chapter
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Eligmodontia puerulus
(Philippi, 1896)
.
Anal. Mus. Nac.
Chile
, Zool. Ent., 13a:20
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Chile
,
Antofagasta Prov.
,
San Pedro
de Atacama,
3223 m
.
DISTRIBUTION: Altipiano of extreme S
Peru
, through NE
Chile
and W
Bolivia
, to NW
Argentina
.
SYNONYMS:
hirtipes
, jacunda,
marica
, tarapacensis.
COMMENTS: Reduced to a subspecies of E.
typus
by
Hershkovitz (1962)
but morphological (
Mann, 1978
;
Osgood, 1943
) and karyotypic (
Kelt et al., 1991
; Orteils et al., 1989) data sustain the specific recognition of E.
puerulus
.