Ctenomys fulvus Philippi, 1860 . Reise Wüste Atacama, p. 157.

TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Antofagasta Prov., Pingo-Pingo .

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains and Monte desert of N.W. Argentina and N. Chile.

COMMENT: Includes robustus, a Rassenkreis subspecies restricted to the oasis of Pica in Tarapaca Prov., Chile; see Mann, 1978, Gayana Zool., 40: 292. Includes coludo, famosus, johanis, and tulduco; see Cabrera, 1961:548-549; but also see Contreras, et al., 1977, Physis, sec. C, 36(92):159-162, who considered these forms provisionally distinct; also see comment under validus .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001007001 as C. fulvus .

5301410027001021001 as C. robustus.