Abrothrix

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

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

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

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. Musser and Carleton, 2005
  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
  • 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.
  • Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0
  • 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.


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