HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Akodon
--> SUBGENUS Microxus
SPECIES Akodon (Microxus) mimus
Author: | Thomas, 1901. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 7: 183. | Common Name: | Hocicudo-like Akodont | Type Locality: | Perú, Puno Dept., Limbane, 2600 m. | Distribution: | Upper E Andean slopes, about 2000-3700 m, from SE Perú (Puno Dept.; Patton and Smith, 1992) to WC Bolivia (Cochabamba Dept.; Anderson, 1997). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Type species of Microxus, a taxon arranged either as a subgenus of Akodon (Cabrera, 1961), as a distinct akodontine genus (Ellerman, 1941; Gyldenstolpe, 1932; Reig, 1987; Thomas, 1916c), or as a synonym of the "oxymycterine" genus Abrothrix (Hershkovitz, 1966c). Allozymic and cytochrome b evidence reveals that mimus is phyletically closer to species of Akodon sensu stricto than to those of Abrothrix (including Chroeomys) and Bolomys (= Necromys) and doubtfully warrants even subgeneric recognition based on these data (see Patton and Smith, 1992; Patton et al., 1989; Smith and Patton, 1991, 1993). |
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