FIGURE 7 in Phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships of gerbil mice Eligmodontia (Rodentia, Cricetidae) in South America, with a description of a new species

FIGURE 7. Habitat near the type locality of Eligmodontia bolsonensis in peripheral sandy areas near the northern limits of the Salar de Pipanaco, Catamarca Province. The site is very near the type locality of Pipanacoctomys aureus, which is limited to the saline edges of the salt flat proper. Shrubs of this halophytic area include members of the Goosefoot Family, Chenopodiaceae, Atriplex lampa (foreground) and darker and taller Suaeda divaricata (mid-portion of the photograph). The taller trees in the background are Prosopis flexuosa. Dune habitats, on which E. bolsonensis also occurs, are visible in the distance near the Prosopis. The peak in the distance is the Nevado del Candado of the Sierra de Aconquija at 5450 m elevation.