HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Euneomys
SPECIES Euneomys fossor
Author: | Thomas, 1899. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 4: 280. | Common Name: | Burrowing Euneomys | Type Locality: | Argentina, "Prov. Salta." | Distribution: | Known only from the type locality, which is questionable as Euneomys is otherwise unrecorded this far north in Argentina (see Mares et al., 1989b). | Comments: | Holotype of Reithrodon fossor Thomas, 1899, type species of Chelemyscus Thomas, 1925, is a composite, the designated type skull referable to Euneomys (Osgood, 1943:164; Pearson, 1984:231). Status is doubtful —"the name Chelemyscus fossor should be attached to an appropriate species of Euneomys by some future revisor" (Pearson, 1984:231). Galliari et al. (1996) considered it a nomen dubium. |
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