Agouti taczanowskii (Stolzmann, 1865) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865:161.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ecuador, Andes .

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and NW Venezuela.

STATUS: Unknown.

SYNONYMS: andina, sierrae.

COMMENTS: Cabrera (1961:595) placed this species in Stictomys, but Handley (1976:55) and Gardner (1971:1088) included it in Agouti .