HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Necromys
SPECIES Necromys amoenus
Author: | Thomas, 1900. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 6: 468. | Common Name: | Pleasant Akodont | Type Locality: | Perú, Arequipa Dept., Calalla, Río Colca, near Sumbay, 3500 m. | Distribution: | Altiplano grasslands, above 3200 m, of SE Perú and W Bolivia, as far south as Tarija Dept. (Anderson, 1993). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Bolomys amoenus. | Comments: | Morphological definition as type species of Bolomys Thomas, 1916, clarified by Reig (1987) and Anderson and Olds (1989). Additional Bolivian localities reported by Salazar-Bravo et al. (2002b). |
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