Ctenomys fulvus Philippi, 1860 . Reise Wüste Atacama, p. 157.

TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Antofagasta Prov., Pingo-Pingo .

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains and Monte desert of NW Argentina and N Chile.

SYNONYMS: atracamensis, chilensis, coludo, famosus, fulvus, johannis, pallidus, pernix, robustus, tolduco.

COMMENTS: Includes robustus, a Rassenkreis subspecies restricted to the oasis of Pica in Tarapaca Prov., Chile (Mann, 1978:292). Includes coludo, famosus, johanis, and tulduco; see Cabrera (1961:548-549) but also see Contreras et al. (1977), who considered these forms provisionally distinct; also see comment under validus . The chromosome no. is 2n=26.