Abrothrix

Abrothrix
Temporal range: Pliocene to Recent
Abrothrix sanborni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Akodontini
Genus: Abrothrix
Waterhouse, 1837
Type species
Mus longipilis
Waterhouse, 1837
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Chroeomys Thomas, 1916
  • Habrothrix Wagner, 1843[fn 1]

Abrothrix is a genus of rodent in the tribe Abrotrichini of family Cricetidae.[2] It contains the following living species:[3]

Footnotes

  1. Misspelling.[1]
  2. Includes A. o. markhami as a subspecies.[4]

References

  1. Musser and Carleton, 2005, p. 1088
  2. D'Elía et al., 2007
  3. Musser and Carleton, 2005
  4. Rodríguez-Serrano et al., 2008

Literature cited

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