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Specimens of Chaetophractus vellerosus are recorded for the first time in Eastern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. This occurrence is interpreted as a relict of a wider distribution resulting from different climatic conditions during the Late Pleistocene and part of the Holocene. Recent soil conditions and physiologic adaption could be responsible of this disjunctive distribution.
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