Bogotá grass mouse
| Bogotá grass mouse | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
| Genus: | Neomicroxus |
| Species: | N. bogotensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Neomicroxus bogotensis (Thomas, 1895)
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The Bogotá grass mouse[2] or Bogotá akodont,[3] (Neomicroxus bogotensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in the Andes eastern and central Colombia and northwestern Venezuela.[3] Alavarado-Serrano and D'Elía (2013) have assigned the species to a new genus, Neomicroxus along with Neomicroxus latebricola.
References
- ^ Cassola, F. (2016). "Neomicroxus bogotensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016 e.T727A22380569. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T727A22380569.en. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
- ^ Duff & Lawson 2004.
- ^ a b Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). "Akodon bogotensis". Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1093. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
Literature cited
- Alavarado-Serrano, D. F. and G. D'Elía (2013). "A new genus for the Andean mice Akodon latebricola and A. bogotensis. (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae)". Journal of Mammalogy. 94 (5): 995–1015. doi:10.1644/12-MAMM-A-276.1. hdl:10533/136796.
- Duff, A. and Lawson, A. (2004). Mammals of the World: A checklist. New Haven: A & C Black. ISBN 0-7136-6021-X.
- Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.