Akodon (Akodon) juninensis Myers, Patton, and Smith 1990

Wilison, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1095

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Akodon (Akodon) juninensis Myers, Patton, and Smith 1990
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Akodon (Akodon) juninensis Myers, Patton, and Smith 1990

Akodon (Akodon) juninensis Myers, Patton, and Smith 1990 , Misc. Publ. Mus . Zool., Univ. Michigan, 177: 41.

Type Locality: Perú, Junín Dept., 22 km (by road) N La Oroya (at junction of Hwy 3 to Junín and Hwy 20 to Tarma), 4040 m.

Vernacular Names: Junin Akodont.

Distribution: E and W Andean slopes, above 2700 m, of C Perú, south along W slopes to Dept. Ayacucho.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Akodon , A. boliviensis species group ( Myers et al., 1990).

Myers, P., J. L. Patton, and M. F. Smith. 1990. A review of the boliviensis group of Akodon (Muridae: Sigmodontinae), with emphasis on Peru and Bolivia. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 177: 1 - 104.

Patton, J. L., P. Myers, and M. F. Smith. 1990. Vicariant versus gradient models of diversification: The small mammal fauna of eastern Andean slopes of Peru. Pp. 355 - 371, in Vertebrates in the tropics: Proceedings of the international symposium on vertebrate biogeography and systematics in the tropics, Bonn, June 5 - 8, 1989 (G. Peters and R. Hutterer, eds.). Museum Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Institute and Zoological Museum, Bonn, 424 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Genus

Akodon