Chelemys macronyx (Thomas 1894)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1110

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11325064

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8449EA27-0A70-F954-70CF-E25FE6FAB498

treatment provided by

Guido

scientific name

Chelemys macronyx (Thomas 1894)
status

 

Chelemys macronyx (Thomas 1894) View in CoL

[Chelemys] macronyx ( Thomas 1894) View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 14: 362.

Type Locality: Argentina, Mendoza Prov., near Volcán Peteroa (not Fort San Rafael, as corrected by Pearson and Lagiglia, 1992).

Vernacular Names: Andean Long-clawed Akodont.

Synonyms: Chelemys alleni ( Osgood 1925) ; Chelemys connectens ( Osgood 1925) ; Chelemys fumosus Thomas 1927 ; Chelemys vestitus ( Thomas 1903) .

Distribution: S Andes along Chile-Argentina boundary, about 34°S latitude south to Straits of Magellan. Distribution in C Chile augmented by Pine et al. (1979) and in Argentina by Pearson (1995) and Teta et al. (2002).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Treated as a subspecies of C. megalonyx by Mann (1978) and Tamayo and Frassinetti (1980); recognized as species by Osgood (1943) and Pearson (1984, 1995). Osgood (1943) designated the skin of Notiomys connectens as the holotype of this composite specimen (skull an Abrothrix ) and synonymized it with macronyx vestitus .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Genus

Chelemys

Loc

Chelemys macronyx (Thomas 1894)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Chelemys] macronyx ( Thomas 1894 )

Thomas 1894: 362
1894
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF