Reithrodon physodes (Olfers, 1818)

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 : 459

Reithrodon physodes (Olfers, 1818) . In Eschwege, Neue Bibl. Reisenb., 15:209.

TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, pampas south of Buenos Aires, south bank of the Rio de la Plata .

DISTRIBUTION: Argentina; adjacent Chile; Uruguay.

COMMENT: Includes auritus, caurinus , cuniculoides, evae, pachycephalus, and typicus ; see Hershkovitz, 1959, J. Mammal., 40:348, and Cabrera, 1961:501. The name auritus was given to this species by Fischer, 1814, Zoognosia, 3:71; see Langguth, 1966, Bull. Zool. Nomenci., 23(6):285-287. Reig, 1978, Publ. Mus. Munic. Cienc. Nat. Mar del Plata “Lorenzo Scaglia," 2(8): 185, referred to this species using Fischer's name, as did Dalby and Mares, 1974, Am. Midi. Nat., 92:205-206. The use of physodes here follows Myers and Carleton, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 161:1-41, who considered some names used by Fischer, 1814, inconsistently binomial (which, if true, would make the work unavailable); ALG also considered Fischer, 1814, an invalid work. However, Langguth, 1981, in litt. responded to Myers and Carleton, 1981, and to Sabrosky, 1967, Case ZN(S) 1774, Bull. Zool. Nomenci., 24:141, and concluded that Fischer, 1814, is an available work, and that auritus is the name to be used for this species. Other names from Fischer, 1814, are employed in this volume pending resolution of this problem (the editors).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008046001001.