''Akodon affinis'', also known as the Colombian grass mouse
or Cordillera Occidental akodont,
[Musser and Carleton, 2005, p. 1092] is a species of
rodent
Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the Order (biology), order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are roden ...
in the family
Cricetidae
The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and New World rats and mice. At almost 608 species, it is the second-largest family of mammals, a ...
.
It is found only in the
Cordillera Occidental of
Colombia.
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References
Literature cited
*Anderson, R.P. and Gómez-Laverde, M. 2008. . In IUCN. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2.
www.iucnredlist.org
. Downloaded on April 2, 2010.
*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.
Akodon
Endemic fauna of Colombia
Mammals of Colombia
Mammals of the Andes
Mammals described in 1912
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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