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
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.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27415192Original name as described
Akodon Spegazzinii
Other common names
Spegazzini's Akodont
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1897.5.5.14
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/9e429a2f-363f-48da-8381-c9f0aa6c3887Type 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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