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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Necromys
SPECIES Necromys lactens
| Author: | Thomas, 1918. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 1: 188. | | Common Name: | White-chinned Akodont | | Type Locality: | Argentina, Jujuy Prov., León, about 1500 m. | | Distribution: | E Andean highlands, about 2100-4000 m, of SC Bolivia (see Anderson and Olds, 1989) and NW Argentina (Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca, and Tucumán Provs.; see Ortiz et al., 2000a). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Bolomys lactens. | | Comments: | Galliari and Pardiñas (1995) reidentified leucolimnaeus, previously considered a subspecies of lactens (Cabrera, 1961; Gyldenstolpe, 1932), as a species of Akodon and questioned (2000:226) the synonymy of negrito and orbus, as attributed by Cabrera (1961), as "dubious." Capllonch et al. (1997) had resurrected N. orbus based on a single specimen from Tucumán Prov., but Pardiñas and Galliari (1998b) considered the action to be inadequately documented. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
negrito (Thomas, 1926)
orbus (Thomas, 1919)
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