Abrothrix hirta

(O. Thomas, 1895)

Hairy Soft-haired Mouse

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Sigmodontinae
Tribe : Abrotrichini
Genus : Abrothrix
Subgenus : Abrothrix

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1895-11-01. Descriptions of four small mammals from South America, including one belonging to the peculiar marsupial genus "Hyracodon," Tomes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)16(95):367-370.

Original name as described

Acodon hirtus

Other common names

Hairy Soft-haired Akodont

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1860.1.5.15

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Fort San Rafael, Mendoza," Argentina. Questioned by O. P. Pearson and H. A. Lagiglia in 1992 and changed to probably near Peteroa Volcano, on the Argentinean–Chilean border.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Chile · Argentina

Taxonomy notes

split from A. longipilis

Taxonomy notes citation

Teta, P., & Pardiñas, U. F. (2014). Variación morfológica cualitativa y cuantitativa en Abrothrix longipilis (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae). Mastozoología neotropical, 21(2), 291-309.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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