| Abrotrichini | |
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| Abrothrix sanborni | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
| Tribe: | Abrotrichini D'Elía, Pardiñas, Teta, and Patton, 2007 |
| Type genus | |
| Abrothrix Waterhouse, 1837[1]
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| Genera[1] | |
Abrotrichini, also known as the Andean clade[2] or southern Andean clade,[3] is a tribe of rodents in the subfamily Sigmodontinae.[1] It includes about fifteen species in four genera,[4] distributed in South America from southern Peru to southernmost South America, including the Patagonian steppes. The earliest known fossils are from the Pliocene of Argentina.[1]