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--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Eligmodontia
SPECIES Eligmodontia puerulus
Author: | Philippi, 1896. | Citation: | Anal. Mus. Nac. Chile, Zool. Ent., 13a: 20. | Common Name: | Altiplano Laucha | Type Locality: | Chile, Antofagasta Prov., San Pedro de Atacama, 3223 m. | Distribution: | Altiplano, usually above 3000 m, of extreme S Perú, through NE Chile and WC Bolivia, to NW Argentina. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Reduced to a subspecies of E. typus by Hershkovitz (1962), but morphological (Mann, 1978; Osgood, 1943) and karyotypic (Kelt et al., 1991; Ortells et al., 1989; Spotorno et al., 1994) data sustain the specific recognition of E. puerulus. Further systematic review is required: e.g., Braun (1993) and Díaz and Barquez (1999) viewed hirtipes as a separate species but Anderson (1997) did not; and Galliari et al. (1996) and Mares et al. (1997) listed marica as distinct. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
hirtipes (Thomas, 1902) jacunda Thomas, 1919 marica Thomas, 1918 tarapacensis Mann, 1945
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