Akodon mimus (Thomas, 1901)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 691

Akodon mimus (Thomas, 1901) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 7:183.

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Puno Dept., Limbane, 2600 m .

DISTRIBUTION: E Andean slopes of SE Peru to WC Bolivia.

COMMENTS: Type species of Microxus , a taxon arranged either as a subgenus of Akodon (Cabrera, 1961) , as a distinct akodontine genus ( Ellerman, 1941; Gyldenstolpe, 1932; Reig, 1987; Thomas, 1916c), or as a synonym of the oxymycterine genus Abrothrix ( Hershkovitz, 1966c) . Preliminary electrophoretic evidence indicates that mimus is phyletically closer to species of Akodon sensu stricto than to those of Bolomys or Chroeomys (see Patton et al., 1989; Smith and Patton, 1991). Also see remarks under A. bogotensis.