Geoxus michaelseni ...
685. Michaelsen’s Long-clawed Mouse Geoxus michaelseni French: Géoxus de Michaelsen / German: Michaelsen-Langkrallenmaus / Spanish: Ratén topo de Michaelsen Taxonomy. Hesperomys (Acodon) michaelseni Matschie, 1898, Punta Arenas, Magallanes y Antartica Chilena, Chile. Exact provenance of the holotype...
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| Summary: | 685. Michaelsen’s Long-clawed Mouse Geoxus michaelseni French: Géoxus de Michaelsen / German: Michaelsen-Langkrallenmaus / Spanish: Ratén topo de Michaelsen Taxonomy. Hesperomys (Acodon) michaelseni Matschie, 1898, Punta Arenas, Magallanes y Antartica Chilena, Chile. Exact provenance of the holotype of G. michaelseni 1s questionable. Taxonomy is poorly explored; treated here as monotypic although several names, including Oxymycterus microtis by J. A. Allen in 1903 and Notiomys valdivianus bicolorby W. H. Osgood in 1943 are available for binomial or trinomial classifications. Oxymycterus delfini is regarded by P. Teta and others in 2015 as ajunior synonym of G. michaelseni, a proposition that we followed here. Monotypic. Distribution. S Andean continental Argentina and adjacent Chile S to W Tierra del Fuego. Descriptive notes. Head-body 97 mm, tail 45 mm, hindfoot 21 mm. No specific data are available for body weight. Michaelsen’s Long-clawed Mouse is slightly larger than the Valdivian Long-clawed Mouse (G. ... : Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier & Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, 2017, Cricetidae, pp. 204-535 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 7 Rodents II, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 509, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6707142 ... |
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