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Chelemys macronyx (Thomas, 1894). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 14:362. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Mendoza Prov., Fort San Rafael. DISTRIBUTION: E and W flanks of S Andes along Chile-Argentina boundary, about 34°S latitude south to Straits of Magellan. C Chilean distribution augmented by Pine et al. (1979). SYNONYMS: alleni, connectens, fumosus, vestitus. COMMENTS: Treated as a subspecies of C. megalonyx by Mann (1978) and Tamayo and Frassinetti (1980); recognized as species by Osgood (1943) and Pearson (1984). Osgood (1943) designated the skin of Notiomys connectens as the holotype of this composite specimen and synonymized it with [C.] macronyx vestitus.

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 699, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098