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Issue: Vol. 2744 No. 1: 19 Jan. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-01-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2744.1.5
Page range: 62–64
Abstract views: 30
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Akodon polopi Jayat et al., 2010 is a senior subjective synomym of Akodon viridescens Braun et al., 2010

Instituto de Ecología y Evolución, Universidad Austral de Chile, campus Isla Teja s/n, casilla 567 Valdivia, Chile
Laboratorio de Investigaciones Ecológicas de Las Yungas (LIEY). Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Casilla de Correo 34, 4107 Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina
Cátedra de Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Miguel Lillo 205, 4000 San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina
Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409
Centro Nacional Patagónico, casilla de correo 128, 9120 Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina
Mammalia Akodon polopi

Abstract

Two new taxa of species level were recently named for grass mice of the genus Akodon (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) from central Argentina: Akodon polopi Jayat, Ortiz, Salazar-Bravo, Pardiñas et D’Elía, 2010 and Akodon viridescens Braun, Mares, Coyner et Van Den Bussche, 2010. Several lines of evidence show that both taxa refer to the same biological species.

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