Order Rodentia (Part 3) Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 392 476 book chapter 193493 10.5281/zenodo.7353031 f291a924-691f-4f06-bc89-3dc2421c2bed 0-89327-235-3 7353031
Auliscomys micropus (Waterhouse, 1837) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837:17 .
TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina , Santa Cruz Prov., in the interior plains of Patagonia, 50° N., near the banks of the Rio Santa Cruz .
DISTRIBUTION: S. Argentina ; S. Chile .
COMMENT: Pearson, 1958 , Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 56(4):452, Pearson and Patton, 1976 , J. Mammal., 57:339, and Spotorno and Walker, 1979 , Arch. Biol. Med. Exp., 12:83-90, included this species in subgenus Loxodontomys of Phyllotis ; Hershkovitz, 1962 , Fieldiana Zool., 46:399, did not consider micropus in a separate subgenus; Pine et al., 1979 , Mammalia , 43:356-357, considered Loxodontomys a nomen nudum, and reviewed the species' distribution. Transferred to Auliscomys by Simonetti and Spotorno, 1980 , An. Mus. Hist. Nat. Valparaiso, 13:285-297.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008042008001 as Phyllotis micropus .