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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Akodon
--> SUBGENUS Akodon
SPECIES Akodon (Akodon) torques
| Author: | Thomas, 1917. | | Citation: | Smithson. Misc. Coll., 68: 3. | | Common Name: | Cloud Forest Akodont | | Type Locality: | Perú, Cuzco Dept., Machu Picchu, 10,000 ft (3048 m). | | Distribution: | E Andean cloud forest, 2000-3500 m, SE Perú. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Akodon. Relegated to a subspecies of A. orophilus (e.g., Cabrera, 1961), but recent studies have revealed that torques is a genetically distinctive form more closely related to A. mollis (Patton and Smith, 1992; Patton et al., 1989, 1990). Described as a species of Microxus but considered a member of Akodon proper by later authors (Ellerman, 1941; Thomas, 1927), placement vindicated by allozymic and cytochrome b data (Patton et al., 1989; Smith and Patton, 1993). |
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