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 1-56098-217-9 7353098 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 .