Reithrodon auritus

Familia: Cricetidae
Subfamilia: Sigmodontinae
Tribus: Reithrodontini
Genus: Reithrodon
Species: Reithrodon auritus

Reithrodon auritus (G. Fischer, 1814)

Holotype: not assigned; based on Azara’s (1801) "rat quatrième or rat oreillard."

Type locality: “les Pampas, au Sud de Buenos-Ayres” (Azara 1801: 91), equated to “south bank of the Río de la Plata,” Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, by Hershkovitz (1959: 349).

• Mus auritus G. Fischer, 1814: 71 [original combination]
• [Reithrodon] auritus: Thomas, 1920: 474 [name combination]

• M[us] physodes Illiger, 1815 (nomen nudum)
• Mus physodes Olfers, 1818
• Mus auritus Desmarest, 1819
• Reithrodon cuniculoides Waterhouse, 1837
• Mus pachycephalus Philippi, 1900
• Reithrodon hatcheri Allen, 1903
• Reithrodon cuniculoides obscurus Allen, 1903
• Reithrodon cuniculoides flammarum Thomas, 1912
• Reithrodon cuniculoides pampanus Thomas, 1916
• Reithrodon caurinus Thomas, 1920
• Reithrodon auritus marinus Thomas, 1920
• Reithrodon cuniculoides evae Thomas, 1927

• Fischer, G. 1814. Zoognosia tabulis synopticis illustrata, in usum praelectionum Academiae Imperialis Medico-Chirurgicae Mosquensis edita. Editio Tertia. Volumen Tertium. Quadrupedum reliquorum, cetorum et montrymatum descriptionem continens. Nicolai Sergeidis Vsevolozsky: Mosquae [=Moscow]. xxiv + 732 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Azara, F. De. 1801. Essais su l’histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes de la province du Paraguay. Traduits sur le manuscrit inédit de l’auteur, Pra. M. L. E. Moreau-Saint-Méry. Charles Pougens, París, 1: 91.
• Olfers, I. von. 1818. Bemerkunger zu Illiger’s Ueberblick der Säugthiere nach ihrer Vertheilung uber die Welttheile, rüchsichtlich der Südamericanischen Arten (Species). (Abhandlung X of Wilhelm Ludwig Eschwege’s Journal von Brasilien . . . , volume 15, heft 2, pp. 192–237, of the "Neue Bibliothek des wichtigsten Reisenbeschreibungen zur Erweiterung der Erd- und Volkerkunde . . . ," edited by F. T. Bertuch, Weimar.)
• Waterhouse, G. R. 1837. [Characters of new species of the genus Mus, from the collection of Mr. Darwin.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1837: 30.
• Philippi, R.A. 1900. Figuras i descripciones de los murideos de Chile. Anales del Museo Nacional de Chile, Zoologia 14a: 42, plate 17, figure 6-6b.
• Allen, J. A. 1903. Descriptions of new rodents from southern Patagonia, with a note on the genus Euneomys Coues, and an addendum to Article IV, on Siberian mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 19: 190–191.
• Thomas, O. 1912. New bats and rodents from S. America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 10: 411.
• Thomas, O. 1920. New species of Reithrodon, Abrocoma, and Scapteromys from Argentina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 5: 473–474.
• Thomas, O. 1927. On a further collection of mammals made by Sr. E. Budin in Neuquen, Patagonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 19: 652.
• Pardiñas, U.F.J. & Galliari, C.A. 2001. Reithrodon auritus. Mammalian Species 664: 1–8. [Full article (PDF)

• Reithrodon auritus in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• IUCN: Reithrodon auritus  (Least Concern)
• Reithrodon auritus (G. Fischer, 1814) – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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