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SPECIES Octodon bridgesi

Author:Waterhouse, 1844.
Actual Date:1845
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1844: 155.
Common Name:Bridges’s Degu
Type Locality:Chile, Curico Prov., Rio Teno.
Distribution:Chilean Andes from 34o15’ to at least 40oS (Redford and Eisenberg, 1992).
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Once common, but now quite rare (Redford and Eisenberg, 1992).
Comments:Massoia (1979:36) reported Octodon, perhaps bridgesi, from S Argentina. Karyotype has 2n=58 and FN=112 (Gallardo, 1992).
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