Phyllotis caprinus Pearson, 1958

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 738

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scientific name	Phyllotis caprinus Pearson, 1958
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Phyllotis caprinus Pearson, 1958 . Univ. California Pubi. Zool., 56:435.

TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Jujuy Prov., Tilcara, 8000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Upper slopes of E Andes from S Bolivia to northernmost Argentina.

COMMENTS: Demoted to a subspecies of P. darwini by Hershkovitz (1962), but distributional and morphological evidence substantiates the specific recognition of P. caprinus ( Pearson, 1958) .