Phyllotis amicus Thomas 1900

Phyllotis amicus Thomas 1900, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 5: 355.

Type Locality: Perú, Cajamarca Dept., Tolón, 100 m.

Vernacular Names: Peruvian Pericote.

Synonyms: Phyllotis maritimus Thomas 1900; Phyllotis montanus Thomas 1900 .

Distribution: Coast and lower Pacific slopes of W Perú, Depts. Piura (see Lavrentchenko and Dmitriev, 1994) to Ayacucho.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Sister species of P. limatus according to phylogenetic analysis of abbreviated cytochrome b sequences (Spotorno et al., 2001). The basis for the reported presence of P. amicus in Argentina (Heinonen Fortabat and Chebez, 1997; Massoia and Donadío, 1990) has been reidentified as an example of Oligoryzomys chacoensis (Galliari et al., 1996) .