Akodon

Akodon
Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Recent
Akodon azarae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Akodontini
Genus: Akodon
Meyen, 1833
Type species
Akodon boliviensis
Meyen, 1833
Species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Acodon Agassiz, 1846
  • Axodon Giebel, 1855
  • Chalcomys Thomas, 1916
  • Hypsimys Thomas, 1918
  • Microxus Thomas, 1909
  • Plectomys Borchert and Hansen, 1983 (nomen nudum)

Akodon is a genus consisting of South American grass mice. They mostly occur south of the Amazon Basin and along the Andes north to Venezuela, but are absent from much of the basin itself, the far south of the continent, and the lowlands west of the Andes. Akodon is one of the most species-rich genera of Neotropical rodents. Species of Akodon are known to inhabit a variety of habitats from tropical and tropical moist forests to altiplano and desert. Fossils are known from the late Pliocene onwards.[2]

  1. ^ Musser and Carleton, 2005, p. 1093
  2. ^ González, E.M.; Pardiñas, U.F.J. (2002). "Deltamys kempi". Mammalian Species (711): Number 711: pp. 1–4. doi:10.1644/1545-1410(2002)711<0001:DK>2.0.CO;2. S2CID 198968620.