Oligoryzomys chacoensis (Myers and Carleton, 1981)

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 : 717

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scientific name	Oligoryzomys chacoensis (Myers and Carleton, 1981)
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Oligoryzomys chacoensis (Myers and Carleton, 1981) . Mise. Pubi. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan, 161: 19.

TYPE LOCALITY: Paraguay, Boqueron Dept., km 419 along Trans Chaco Hwy, northwest of Villa Hayes .

DISTRIBUTION: Dryer habitats of W Paraguay, SE Bolivia, WC Brazil, and N Argentina. May be more broadly distributed in cerrado and caatinga habitats in SE Brazil.

COMMENTS: Karyotype reported by Myers and Carleton (1981); morphometric variation by Myers and Carleton (1981) and Olds and Anderson (1987). Status with regard to O. andinus unresolved.

References

Anderson, S., T. L. Yates, and J. A. Cook. 1987. Notes on Bolivian Mammals 4: The genus Ctenomys (Rodentia, Ctenomyidae) in the eastern lowlands. American Museum Novitates, 2891: 1 - 20.

Myers, P., and M. D. Carleton. 1981. The species of Oryzomys (Oligoryzomys) in Paraguay and the identity of Azara's Rat sixieme ou rat a tarse noir . Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 161: 1 - 41.