Rodents from southern Patagonian semi-arid steppes (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina)

Modeling Potential Distribution of Oligoryzomys longicaudatus, the Andes Virus (Genus: Hantavirus) Reservoir, in Argentina

“…We generated an extensive database of O. longicaudatus presence and absence records from published studies (Monjeau et al 1997;Pearson 2002;Pardiñas et al 2003Pardiñas et al , 2004Porcasi et al 2005;Piudo et al 2005;Jayat and Pacheco 2006;Pardiñas and Teta 2007;Carbajo and Pardiñas 2007;Rivera et al 2007;Cueto et al 2008;Ferro and Bárquez 2008;Nabte et al 2009) and our own surveys in northwestern Chubut province (V. Andreo, unpublished, Table 1). Presence was defined by voucher specimens, osteological remains in owl pellets or the trapping of the animal in the field.…”

Raptor pellets as zooarchaeological material for paleoparasitological studies in Patagonia

“…was the most abundant species in a 10,000-year accumulation of owl pellets in a cave from the northern Patagonia. Cueto et al (2008) examined recent pellets of barn owls (T. alba) and magellanic horned owls (Bubo magellanicus) from southern Patagonian semi-arid steppes (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina) and observed that Abrothrix olivaceus and Eligmodontia sp. were the most abundant trapped species and the best represented in pellet samples, also with Euneomys sp.…”

Loxodontomys micropus (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

“…Hershkovitz (1962:392) wrote ''the type of micropus was taken … perhaps in the vicinity of the present locality of La Argentina, Province of Santa Cruz, southern Argentina.'' However, we note that La Argentina (5 Estancia La Argentina, northern coast of Lago Argentino, 50u109S, 72u379W) is more than 70 km west of the most interior point reached by Darwin along the course of the Santa Cruz River (see Cueto et al 2008).…”