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Chelemys macronyx
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Chelemys macronyx (Thomas, 1894). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 14:362.
TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Mendoza Prov., Fort San Rafael.
DISTRIBUTION: E and W flanks of S Andes along Chile-Argentina boundary, about 34°S latitude south to Straits of Magellan. C Chilean distribution augmented by Pine et al. (1979).
SYNONYMS: alleni, connectens, fumosus, vestitus.
COMMENTS: Treated as a subspecies of C. megalonyx by Mann (1978) and Tamayo and Frassinetti (1980); recognized as species by Osgood (1943) and Pearson (1984). Osgood (1943) designated the skin of Notiomys connectens as the holotype of this composite specimen and synonymized it with [C.] macronyx vestitus.
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Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 699, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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References
- Pine, R. H., S. D. Miller, and M. L. Schamberger. 1979. Contributions to the mammalogy of Chile. Mammalia, 43: 339 - 376.
- Mann, G. F. 1978. Los pequenos mamiferos de Chile (marsupiales, quiropteros, edentados y roedores). Guyana (Zoologia), 40: 1 - 342.
- Tamayo H., M., and D. Frassinetti C. 1980. Catalogo de los mamiferos fosiles y vivientes de Chile. Boletin de Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Chile (Santiago), 37: 323 - 399.
- Osgood, W. H. 1943. The mammals of Chile. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 30: 1 - 268.
- Pearson, O. P. 1984. Taxonomy and natural history of some fossorial rodents of Patagonia, southern Argentina. Journal of Zoology, London, 202: 225 - 237.