Eligmodontia typus F. Cuvier, 1837

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 392-476 : 410

Eligmodontia typus F. Cuvier, 1837 . Ann. Sei. Nat. Paris, ser. 2, 7: 169.

TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Corrientes Prov .

DISTRIBUTION: Argentina; N. Chile; W. Bolivia; S. Peru.

COMMENT: Includes elegans and puerulus; see Hershkovitz, 1962, Fieldiana Zool., 46:186- 187, and Pine et al., 1979, Mammalia, 43: 352; but also see Reise, 1973, Guyana Inst. Biol. Univ. Concepcion, 27:1 -20, and Corbet and Hill, 1980:153, who listed puerulus as a distinct species; puerulus is probably a separate species (DFW). Includes hypogaeus which may be a composite; see Massoia, 1976 - 1977, Rev. Invest. Agro. INTA, ser. 5, Patalogia Vegetal, 13: 15-20, and Williams and Mares, 1978, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 47(9):201, 218; also see Pearson and Patton, 1976, J. Mammal., 57:339-350, who listed hypogaeus as a distinct species of Graomys, Cabrera, 1961:495 , who included hypogaeus in Phyllotis (Graomys) griseoflavus , and Hershkovitz, 1962, Fieldiana Zool., 46:462-463, who regarded it as a distinct species of Phyllotis . Type locality is uncertain; see Hershkovitz, 1962, Fieldiana Zool., 46: 185.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008013001001.