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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Phyllotis
SPECIES Phyllotis osilae
| Author: | J. A. Allen, 1901. | | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 14: 44. | | Common Name: | Bunchgrass Pericote | | Type Locality: | Perú, Puno Dept., Osila (= Asillo), 17 mi (27 km) ENE Ayaviri, 13,000 ft (3962 m) (as interpreted by Pearson, 1958:426). | | Distribution: | Upper Andean slopes on Atlantic drainage, from SC Perú (Cuzco), through W Bolivia (1700-4900 m), to N Argentina (Catamarca). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | All-acrocentric karyotype (2n = 68) interpreted as ancestral state of the genus (Pearson and Patton, 1976). In Bolivia, Anderson (1997) recognized osilae (lutescens as a full synonym) and phaeus as subspecies. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
lutescens Thomas, 1902
nogalaris Thomas, 1921
phaeus Osgood, 1944
tucumanus Thomas, 1912
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