Scapteromys tumidus (Waterhouse, 1837)

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 : 745-746

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scientific name	Scapteromys tumidus (Waterhouse, 1837)
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Scapteromys tumidus (Waterhouse, 1837) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837:15.

TYPE LOCALITY: Uruguay, Maldonado .

DISTRIBUTION: Southernmost Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Uruguay and adjacent Argentina, E Paraguay.

SYNONYMS: aquaticus .

COMMENTS: Distribution and morphological identity reviewed by Hershkovitz (1966c). Massoia and Fornes (1964) realigned aquaticus as a subspecies of S. tumidus . The taxonomic significance of the reported karyotypic differences between aquaticus and tumidus warrants re-examination (see Brum et al., 1973, and Gentile de Fronza, 1970).