Euneomys petersoni J. A. Allen, 1903

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 : 702

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scientific name	Euneomys petersoni J. A. Allen, 1903
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Euneomys petersoni J. A. Allen, 1903 . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19:192.

TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Santa Cruz Prov., upper Rio Chico, near the Cordilleras .

DISTRIBUTION: Extreme S Argentina and adjacent Chile, excluding Tierra del Fuego; limits uncertain.

SYNONYMS: dabbenei.

COMMENTS: Relegated to a subspecies of E. chinchilloides by Hershkovitz (1962) and Pearson and Christie (1991), but Osgood (1943) had noted the nearby occurrence of E. petersoni and E. chinchilloides without evidence of intergradation.

References

Hershkovitz, P. 1962. Evolution of Neotropical cricetine rodents (Muridae) with special reference to the phyllotine group. Fieldiana: Zoology, 46: 1 - 524.

Osgood, W. H. 1943. The mammals of Chile. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 30: 1 - 268.

Pearson, O. P., and M. I. Christie. 1991. Sympatric species of Euneomys (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 26: 121 - 127.