Altiplano chinchilla mouse

Altiplano chinchilla mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Sigmodontinae
Tribe:	Phyllotini
Genus:	Chinchillula Thomas, 1898
Species:	C. sahamae
Binomial name
Chinchillula sahamae Thomas, 1898
Distribution of Chinchillula sahamae according to Eisenberg & Redford, 2000

The Altiplano chinchilla mouse or achallo (Chinchillula sahamae) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is the only species in the genus Chinchillula. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.

References

1. Dunnum, J.; Bernal, N.; Zeballos, H.; Vivar, E. (2016). "Chinchillula sahamae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T4655A22333118. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T4655A22333118.en . Retrieved 14 November 2021.

• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.