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Lagostomus maximus
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Lagostomus maximus (Desmarest 1817)
[Dipus] maximus Desmarest 1817, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., Vol. 13: 117.
Type Locality: Unknown; possibly from pampas of Buenos Aires, Argentina; see Cabrera (1961).
Vernacular Names: Argentine Plains Viscacha.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Lagostomus maximus subsp. maximus Desmarest 1817
Subspecies Lagostomus maximus subsp. inmollis Thomas 1910
Subspecies Lagostomus maximus subsp. petilidens Hollister 1914
Distribution: N, C, and E Argentina, S and W Paraguay, SE Bolivia.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Reviewed by Jackson et al. (1996). Karyptype has 2n=56 and FN=110 (George and Weir, 1974).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Chinchillidae, pp. 1550-1552 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1551, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/CDD476863952B9EF8996C6DA9F87EEED (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/D6988430F54469062114D1D72B527BDB (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231546701 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chinchillidae
- Genus
- Lagostomus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Desmarest
- Species
- maximus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lagostomus maximus (Desmarest, 1817) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Hollister, N. 1914. A systematic account of the grasshopper mice. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 47: 427 - 489.
- Jackson, J. E., L. C. Branch, and D. Villarreal. 1996. Lagostomus maximus. Mammalian Species, 543: 1 - 6.
- George, W., and B. J. Weir. 1974. Hystricomorph chromosomes. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 34: 79 - 108.