Akodontini is the second most speciose rodent
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
of the subfamily
Sigmodontinae
The rodent subfamily Sigmodontinae includes New World rats and mice, with at least 376 species. Many authorities include the Neotominae and Tylomyinae as part of a larger definition of Sigmodontinae. When those genera are included, the speci ...
. It includes at least 106 living species in 19 genera and is distributed mainly in the southern half of
South America
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, with only two genera extending into
Guyana (''
Podoxymys'') and
Venezuela
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Necromys''). It also includes genera previously placed in tribe Scapteromyini. The following genera are now generally recognized:
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Akodon
''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 ...
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Bibimys''
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Blarinomys''
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Brucepattersonius
''Brucepattersonius'' is a genus of rodents within the tribe Akodontini from southeastern South America. Also known as brucies, the genus is named after Bruce Patterson, MacArthur Curator at the Department of Zoology (Mammals), at the Field Mu ...
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Deltamys''
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Juscelinomys''
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Kunsia''
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Lenoxus''
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Necromys'' (previously ''Bolomys'' or ''Cabreramys'')
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Neomicroxus
''Neomicroxus'' is a genus of grass mice. Both species were placed in the genus Akodon
''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 a ...
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Oxymycterus
''Oxymycterus'' is a genus of rat-like rodents commonly known as hocicudos. They are endemic to South America. , the genus contains the following 16 species:
* ''O. akodontius'' Argentine hocicudo
* ''O. amazonicus'' Amazon hocicudo
* ''O. ang ...
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Podoxymys''
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Scapteromys''
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Thalpomys''
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Thaptomys''
''Chalcomys'', ''Hypsimys'', and ''Microxus'' have been synonymized under the genus ''Akodon''.
Several other genera were previously placed in Akodontini, but are now placed in a separate tribe
Abrotrichini, largely on molecular grounds.
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.
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Sigmodontinae
Mammal tribes