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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Loxodontomys
SPECIES Loxodontomys micropus
| Author: | Waterhouse, 1837. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837: 17. | | Common Name: | Southern Pericote | | Type Locality: | Argentina, Santa Cruz Prov., "interior plains of Patagonia" at 50°S latitude, near the Río Santa Cruz (probably near La Argentina as per Hershkovitz, 1962:392). | | Distribution: | S Andes of Chile and Argentina, from about 38°S latitude to Straits of Magellan. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Auliscomys micropus. | | Comments: | Revised by Pearson (1958); banded karyotype published by Spotorno and Walker (1979). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
alsus (Thomas, 1919)
fumipes (Osgood, 1943)
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