Akodon spegazzinii

O. Thomas, 1897

Spegazzini's Grass Mouse

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1897-08-01. On some small mammals from Salta, N. Argentina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)20(116):214-218.

Original name as described

Akodon Spegazzinii

Other common names

Spegazzini's Akodont

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1897.5.5.14

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Lower Cachi." Clarified by J. P. Jayat and colleagues in 2010 as lower course of the Cachi River, which passes through the town of Cachi, Salta, Argentina.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Argentina

Taxonomy notes

includes leucolimnaeus but not A. oenos here, although some authorities treat A. oenos as a synonym of this species

Taxonomy notes citation

Jayat, J. P., Ortiz, P. E., Ojeda, A. A., Novillo, A., Teta, P., D'Elía, G., & Ojeda, R. A. (2019). Quantitative morphological characters of the skull suggest that Akodon oenos (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) is not a junior synonym of A. spegazzinii. Mammalia, 1. · Patton, J. L., Pardiñas, U. F., & D'Elía, G. (2015). Mammals of south america, volume 2: Rodents (Vol. 2). University of Chicago Press.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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