Argentine Hocicudo
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| Argentine Hocicudo | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Genus: | Oxymycterus |
| Species: | O. akodontius |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxymycterus akodontius Thomas, 1921 |
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The Argentine Hocicudo (Oxymycterus akodontius) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in northern Argentina in yungas (eastern Andean mountain forest) habitat.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Jayat, J., D'Elia, G., Pardinas, U. & Teta, P. (2008). "Oxymycterus akodontius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/15782. Retrieved 8 June 2009.
- 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.
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