HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Akodon
--> SUBGENUS Hypsimys
SPECIES Akodon (Hypsimys) budini
Author: | Thomas, 1918. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 1: 191. | Common Name: | Budin’s Akodont | Type Locality: | Argentina, Jujuy Prov., Leon, 1500 m. | Distribution: | Mountains of NW Argentina and SC Bolivia (see Emmons, 1997). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Type species of Hypsimys, which Cabrera (1961), Reig (1987), and Smith and Patton (1999) recognized as a subgenus of Akodon; listed as a genus by Galliari et al. (1996) without comment. Karyotype reported by Vitullo et al. (1986) and biochemical divergence by Apfelbaum and Reig (1989). |
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