Ctenomys opimus Wagner, 1848

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 786

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scientific name	Ctenomys opimus Wagner, 1848
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Ctenomys opimus Wagner, 1848 View in CoL . Arch. Naturgesch., 1:75.

TYPE LOCALITY: Bolivia, Oruro Dept., Monte Sajama .

DISTRIBUTION: NW Argentina, SW Bolivia, S Peru, N Chile between 2,000 and 5,000 m elevation on the high Andean steppe (= Puna).

STATUS: Common.

SYNONYMS: luteolus.

COMMENTS: May be conspecific with fulvus ; opimus and fulvus cannot be separated on the basis of karyotypes; see Gallardo (1979:80) and Cook et al. (1990). The chromosome no. is 2n=26; FN=48.