Kunsia tomentosus (Lichtenstein, 1830)

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 : 706

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scientific name	Kunsia tomentosus (Lichtenstein, 1830)
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Kunsia tomentosus (Lichtenstein, 1830) . Darst. Säugeth., 7(15):33.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, southeastern area along the Rio Uruguay (as restricted by Hershkovitz, 1966c:120) .

DISTRIBUTION: NE Bolivia (Beni Prov.) and WC Brazil (Mato Grosso); Pleistocene cave samples in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

SYNONYMS: gnambiquarae, principalis .

COMMENTS: Rare in collections; range inadequately known. See Massoia and Fornes (1965) and Hershkovitz (1966c) for justification of synonymy.

Hershkovitz, P. 1966 c. South American swamp and fossorial rats of the scapteromyine group (Cricetinae, Muridae), with comments on the glans penis in murid taxonomy. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 31: 81 - 149.

Massoia, E., and A. Fornes. 1965. Notas sobre el genero Scapteromys (Rodentia-Cricetidae). II. Fundamentos de la identidad especifica de S. principalis (Lund) y S. gnambiquarae (M. Ribeiro). Neotropica, 11: 1 - 7.