The Serra do Mar grass mouse or Cerrado grass mouse (Akodon serrensis) is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
| Serra do Mar grass mouse | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
| Genus: | Akodon |
| Species: | A. serrensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Akodon serrensis Thomas, 1902
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Pardiñas et al. (2016) transferred this species from the genus Akodon to the separate akodontine genus Castoria. The authors also considered A. serrensis to be likely junior synonym of the species Habrothrix angustidens Winge (1887), described on the basis of fossil (probably late Pleistocene) remains recovered from five cave deposits in the area of Lagoa Santa (Minas Gerais, Brazil), which is the type species of the genus Castoria.[2]
References
edit- ^ Pardinas, U.; D'Elia, G.; Patterson, B. & Teta, P. (2008). "Akodon serrensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
- ^ Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas; Lena Geise; Karen Ventura; Gisele Lessa (2016). "A new genus for Habrothrix angustidens and Akodon serrensis (Rodentia, Cricetidae): again paleontology meets neontology in the legacy of Lund" (PDF). Mastozoología Neotropical. 23 (1): 93–115.