Akodon aerosus

Akodon aerosus
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Sigmodontinae
Genus:	Akodon
Species:	A. aerosus
Binomial name
Akodon aerosus Thomas, 1913

Akodon aerosus, also known as the highland grass mouse ^[1] or Yungas akodont, ^[2] is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in the eastern Andes from eastern Ecuador through Peru into central Bolivia. ^[2]

References

1. Bernal, N.; Dunnum, J.; Vivar, E. (2016). "Akodon aerosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T723A22380418. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T723A22380418.en . Retrieved 14 November 2021.
2. Musser and Carleton, 2005, p. 1092

Literature cited

• Dunnum, J., Vargas, J., Bernal, N., Zeballos, H., Vivar, E. and Patterson, B. 2008. Akodon aerosus. In IUCN. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on April 2, 2010.
• Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp.  ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0