Auliscomys micropus (Waterhouse, 1837)

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 : 695

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scientific name	Auliscomys micropus (Waterhouse, 1837)
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Auliscomys micropus (Waterhouse, 1837) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837:17.

TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Santa Cruz Prov., "interior plains of Patagonia" at 50°S latitude, near the Rio Santa Cruz (probably near La Argentina fide Hershkovitz, 1962:392) .

DISTRIBUTION: S Andes of Chile and Argentina, from about 38°S latitude to Straits of Magellan.

SYNONYMS: alsus,fumipes.

COMMENTS: Type species of Osgood's (1947) subgenus Loxodontomys and revised in this context by Pearson (1958). Banded karyotype published by Spotorno and Walker (1979); transferred to Auliscomys by Simonetti and Spotorno (1980).