Akodon longipilis (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 : 691

Akodon longipilis (Waterhouse, 1837) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837:16.

TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Coquimbo Prov., Coquimbo .

DISTRIBUTION: C to S Chile and Argentina.

SYNONYMS: angustus , apta, brachytarsus, castanea , francei, fusco-ater, hirta , melampus, modestior, moerens, nubila, porcinus, suffusa.

COMMENTS: Type species of Abrothrix , typically ranked as a subgenus of Akodon (Cabrera, 1961; Ellerman, 1941; Reig, 1978, 1987), occasionally as a genus ( Gyldenstolpe, 1932), or with Microxus as a synonym ( Hershkovitz, 1966c). See Reig (1987) for a review of treatment of Abrothrix and its specific contents. Species closely related to, perhaps conspecific with sanborni (see Osgood, 1943; Pine et al., 1979); also see A. lanosus . Pearson (1984) assigned Chelemys angustus to synonymy with A. longipilis ; other synonyms follow Osgood (1943).