Oligoryzomys magellanicus (Bennett, 1836)

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 : 718

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scientific name	Oligoryzomys magellanicus (Bennett, 1836)
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Oligoryzomys magellanicus (Bennett, 1836) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835:191 [1836].

TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Magallanes Prov., Straits of Magellan, Port Famine .

DISTRIBUTION: S Patagonian region of Chile and Argentina, including Tierra del Fuego.

COMMENTS: Karyotypic, morphometric, and phallic differention from O. longicaudatus supports the specific recognition of O. magellanicus ( Gallardo and Palma, 1990; Gallardo and Patterson, 1985).