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Octomys mimax Thomas 1920
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Description
Octomys mimax Thomas, 1920. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 6:118.
TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Catamarca Prov., La Puntilia.
DISTRIBUTION: Foothills and lower montane slopes of the Andes, and portions of the Monte desert of Catamarca, La Rioja, San Juan, and N Mendoza Provs. (Argentina).
SYNONYMS: joannius.
COMMENTS: Occurs at high elevations in Andes, and is similar in habits to the North American Woodrat (Redford and Eisenberg, 1992).
Notes
Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 788, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1D26FFF6FFD8FFD7FFE1FC69FFB0DF05 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Octodontidae
- Genus
- Octomys
- Species
- mimax
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Octomys mimax Thomas, 1920 sec. Woods, 1993
References
- Redford, K. H., and J. Eisenberg. 1992. Mammals of the Neotropics, 2. The southern cone. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 430 pp.