Ctenomys fulvus Philippi 1860

Ctenomys fulvus Philippi, 1860. Reise Wüste Atacama, p. 157. TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Antofagasta Prov., Pingo-Pingo. DISTRIBUTION: Mountains and Monte desert of NW Argentina and N Chile. SYNONYMS: atracamensis, chilensis, coludo, famosus, fulvus, johannis, pallidus, pernix, robustus, tolduco. COMMENTS: Includes robustus, a Rassenkreis subspecies restricted to the oasis of Pica in Tarapaca Prov., Chile (Mann, 1978:292). Includes coludo, famosus, johanis, and tulduco; see Cabrera (1961:548-549) but also see Contreras et al. (1977), who considered these forms provisionally distinct; also see comment under validus. The chromosome no. is 2n=26.Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 784-785, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735308