Eligmodontia puerulus (Philippi, 1896)

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 : 701

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scientific name	Eligmodontia puerulus (Philippi, 1896)
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Eligmodontia puerulus (Philippi, 1896) . Anal. Mus. Nac. Chile, Zool. Ent., 13a:20.

TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Antofagasta Prov., San Pedro de Atacama, 3223 m .

DISTRIBUTION: Altipiano of extreme S Peru, through NE Chile and W Bolivia, to NW Argentina.

SYNONYMS: hirtipes , jacunda, marica , tarapacensis.

COMMENTS: Reduced to a subspecies of E. typus by Hershkovitz (1962) but morphological ( Mann, 1978; Osgood, 1943) and karyotypic ( Kelt et al., 1991; Orteils et al., 1989) data sustain the specific recognition of E. puerulus .