Galea flavidens (Brandt, 1835). Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., ser. 6, 3:439. TYPE LOCALITY: Unknown; possibly Minas Gerais, Brazil. DISTRIBUTION: Brazil. COMMENT: Couto, 1950, Mem. Paleontol. Bras., p. 232, considered flavidens synonymous with spixii, but see Cabrera, 1961:573, who considered both to be distinct species and discussed type locality. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410019002001001.

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 574, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039

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