Akodon dayi

Osgood, 1916

Day's Grass Mouse

Less reddish than normal. Also as Dusky Akodont.
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Location:Bolivia, Santa Cruz department, Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, El Refugio (20L , 711981E 8367677N)Date taken:Oct 29, 2002

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 3564

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Sigmodontinae
Tribe : Akodontini
Genus : Akodon

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Osgood, W.H. 1916-10-31. Mammals of the Collins-Day South American expedition. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 10(14):199-216.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2651497

Original name as described

Akodon dayi

Other common names

Dusky Akodont

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:21329

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=17bfee80-30b5-425e-b511-27784fe10d48

Type locality

"Todos Santos, Chaparé River [Cochabamba], Bolivia."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Bolivia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002397

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 1 name and synonym.

Akodon dayi

Osgood, 1916

Family

Cricetidae

Root name

dayi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

FMNH:Mamm:21329

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=17bfee80-30b5-425e-b511-27784fe10d48

Authority page

208

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2651497

Authority publication

Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series

Name usages

  1. Gyldenstolpe (1932:102) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67179)
  2. Corbet & Hill (1991:158) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  3. Musser & Carleton (1993:689) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63347)
  4. Anderson (1997:418) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5773)
  5. Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)
  6. Wilson, Mittermeier & Lacher (2017:478) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57900)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #731) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #731) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  9. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002397) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  10. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/731/115051592) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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