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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Chelemys
SPECIES Chelemys delfini
| Author: | Cabrera, 1905. | | Citation: | Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat., 9: 15. | | Common Name: | Magellanic Long-clawed Akodont | | Type Locality: | Chile, Magallanes Prov., Straits of Magellan, Punta Arenas. | | Distribution: | Southernmost Chile. | | Comments: | Taxonomic status and distributional extent require refinement—treated as a subspecies of C. megalonyx by Mann (1978) and Tamayo and Frassinetti (1980); retained as a species by Osgood (1943) and Reig (1987). Johnson et al. (1990) recognized C. delfini and C. macronyx as definable forms, separable by body size, in the Patagonian region of extreme S Chile. |
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