Serra do Mar grass mouse

Serra do Mar grass mouse
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Akodon
Species:
A. serrensis
Binomial name
Akodon serrensis
Thomas, 1902

The Serra do Mar grass mouse or Cerrado grass mouse (Akodon serrensis) is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Brazil.

Pardiñas et al. (2016) transferred this species from the genus Akodon to the separate akodontine genus Castoria. The authors also considered A. serrensis to be likely junior synonym of the species Habrothrix angustidens Winge (1887), described on the basis of fossil (probably late Pleistocene) remains recovered from five cave deposits in the area of Lagoa Santa (Minas Gerais, Brazil), which is the type species of the genus Castoria.[2]

References

  1. ^ Pardinas, U.; D'Elia, G.; Patterson, B. & Teta, P. (2008). "Akodon serrensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
  2. ^ Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas; Lena Geise; Karen Ventura; Gisele Lessa (2016). "A new genus for Habrothrix angustidens and Akodon serrensis (Rodentia, Cricetidae): again paleontology meets neontology in the legacy of Lund" (PDF). Mastozoología Neotropical. 23 (1): 93–115.


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