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--> GENUS Reithrodon
SPECIES Reithrodon auritus
Author: | Fischer, 1814. | Citation: | Zoognosia, 3: 71. | Common Name: | Hairy-soled Conyrat | Type Locality: | Argentina, Buenos Aires Prov., pampas south of Buenos Aires, south bank of the Río de la Plata (as restricted by Hershkovitz, 1959a:349). | Distribution: | Isolated records in the Pampean region, N and C Argentina; more or less continuously distributed over the Patagonian region, sea level-3000 m, from C Argentina and adjacent Chile through Tierra del Fuego (see Ortiz et al., 2000; Pardiñas and Galliari, 2001:Fig. 3). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | See the weighty Mammalian Species account (No. 664) of Pardiñas and Galliari (2001) for discrimination from R. typicus, remarks on the type locality, review of fossil synonyms and numerous paleontological occurrences (middle Pliocene-Holocene), and distribution of the four conventionally recognized subspecies (Cabrera, 1961), "whose boundaries are highly hypothetical." Pardiñas (1995) allocated the late Pleistocene Bothriomys spegazzinii, described by Ameghino (1889) from Argentinian sediments, as a synonym of R. auritus. Reports of the species from the Malvinas (= Falkland) Isls remain unconfirmed (see Pardiñas and Galliari, 2001). Also see account of R. typicus, formerly included as a subspecies. |
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auritus (Desmarest, 1819) caurinus Thomas, 1920 cuniculoides Waterhouse, 1837 evae Thomas, 1927 flammarum Thomas, 1912 hatcheri J. A. Allen, 1903 marinus Thomas, 1920 obscurus J. A. Allen, 1903 pachycephalus (Philippi, 1900) pampanus Thomas, 1916 physodes (Illiger, 1815) physodes (Olfers, 1818) spegazzinii (Ameghino, 1889)
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