The São Paulo grass mouse (''Akodon sanctipaulensis'') is a

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References

*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 ''in'' Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Akodon Mammals described in 1990 {{Akodon-stub