Abrothrix

Genus of rodents

Abrothrix
Temporal range: Pliocene to Recent
Abrothrix sanborni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Abrotrichini
Genus: Abrothrix
Waterhouse, 1837
Type species
Mus longipilis
Waterhouse, 1837
Species

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Synonyms
  • Chroeomys Thomas, 1916
  • Habrothrix Wagner, 1843[fn 1]

Abrothrix is a genus of rodent in the tribe Abrotrichini of family Cricetidae.[2] It contains the following living species:[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Misspelling.[1]
  2. ^ Includes A. o. markhami as a subspecies.[5]

References

  1. ^ Musser and Carleton, 2005, p. 1088
  2. ^ D'Elía et al., 2007
  3. ^ Teta et al., 2017
  4. ^ D'Elia G, Teta P, Upham NS, Pardinas UFJ & Patterson BD (2015) Description of a new soft-haired mouse, genus Abrothrix (Sigmodontinae), from the temperate Valdivian rainforest. Journal of Mammalogy 96; 4: 839-853
  5. ^ Rodríguez-Serrano et al., 2008

Literature cited

  • MUSSER, G. G. AND M. D. CARLETON. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference, 3rd ed (Wilson DE and Reeder DAM eds.), Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
  • D'Elía, G., Pardiñas, U.F.J., Teta, P. and Patton, J.L. 2007. Definition and diagnosis of a new tribe of sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae), and a revised classification of the subfamily. Gayana 71(2):187–194.
  • TETA, P., C. CAÑÓN, B. D. PATTERSON, AND U. F. J. PARDIÑAS. 2017. Phylogeny of the tribe Abrotrichini (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae): integrating morphological and molecular evidence into a new classification. Cladistics 33(2):153–182.
  • Rodríguez-Serrano, E., Hernández, C.E. and Palma, R.E. 2008. A new record and an evaluation of the phylogenetic relationships of Abrothrix olivaceus markhami (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). Mammalian Biology 73(4):309–317.
Taxon identifiers
Abrothrix


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