104 urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:f2cd1fff-21e4-581f-a7fa-850997197b7f urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1C81912-2D17-4CD8-8D2C-EFEAAAB2EF75 Vertebrate Zoology VZ 1864-5755 2625-8498 Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung 10.3897/vz.76.e194750 194750 Editorial Ctenomyidae Mammalia Rodentia Systematics Editor’s note for the research article A new living species of the genus Ctenomys (Rodentia: Cteno­myidae) from central-western Argentina Fritz Uwe uwe.fritz@senckenberg.de https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6740-7214 1 Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Dresden, Dresden, Germany Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Dresden Dresden Germany

Corresponding author: Uwe Fritz (uwe.fritz@senckenberg.de).

Academic editor: Uwe Fritz

 2026 17 04 2026 76 183 183 FFF687FD-43BF-5CE9-8365-A2664DC75943 19649368 Uwe Fritz This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. <p>On 8 March 2024, Vertebrate Zoology published a research article “A new living species of the genus <italic><tp:taxon-name><tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="genus" reg="Ctenomys">Ctenomys</tp:taxon-name-part></tp:taxon-name></italic> (<tp:taxon-name><tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="order" reg="Rodentia">Rodentia</tp:taxon-name-part></tp:taxon-name>: <tp:taxon-name><tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="family" reg="Ctenomyidae">Ctenomyidae</tp:taxon-name-part></tp:taxon-name>) from central-western Argentina” by Alvarado-Larios et al. (<ext-link xlink:href="10.3897/vz.74.e115242" ext-link-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.74.e115242</ext-link>). On 11 December 2024, an Editorial Expression of Concern (<ext-link xlink:href="10.3897/vz.74.e144189" ext-link-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.74.e144189</ext-link>) alerted readers that doubts have been voiced about the validity of the cited Research Permit (RES ANP EX-483484-2020) for the investigations by Alvarado-Larios et al. (2024). In the meantime, two decisions (resoluciones) have been issued by the Provincia de Mendoza, República Argentina, that resolve this situation (RESOL-2025-623-E-GDEMZA-BIOECO, RESOL-2025-644-E-GDEMZA-BIOECO) in combination with a letter by Nuria Ojeda of the Ministerio de Energía y Ambiente, Subsecretaría de Ambiente, Provinicia de Mendoza, República Argentina, dated to 11 February 2026 (NO-2026-01111240-GDEMZA-ENERGAMB). The authors have corrected the Acknowledgment section of their paper as described in the Corrigendum (Alvarado-Larios et al. 2026, <ext-link xlink:href="10.3897/vz.76.e194570" ext-link-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.76.e194570</ext-link>). This change has addressed previous concerns, which is why Vertebrate Zoology has rescinded the Editorial Expression of Concern.</p> <p>Uwe Fritz</p> <p>Editor-in-Chief, Vertebrate Zoology</p> </sec> </body> </article>