Chelemys megalonyx (Waterhouse, 1845)

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 : 699

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scientific name	Chelemys megalonyx (Waterhouse, 1845)
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Chelemys megalonyx (Waterhouse, 1845) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1844:154 [1845].

TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Valparaiso Prov., Lake Quintero .

DISTRIBUTION: C Chile, Coquimbo Prov. south to Magallanes.

SYNONYMS: delfini , microtis , niger , scalops.

COMMENTS: The association of delfini — retained by Osgood (1943) as a species related to C. macronyx but listed as a subspecies of C. megalonyx by Tamayo and Frassinetti (1980) —needs resolution.