Akodontini

From Freepedia

? Akodontini Fossil Range: Late Pliocene - Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Superfamily: Muroidea Family: Cricetidae Subfamily: Sigmodontinae Tribe: Akodontini Vorontzov, 1959
Genera
Akodon Bibimys Blarinomys Bolomys Brucepattersonius Juscelinomys Kunsia Lenoxus Necromys Oxymycterus Podoxymys Scapteromys Thalpomys

The Akodontini is a tribe of the subfamily Sigmodontinae, family Cricetidae, order Rodentia. It includes at least 95 living species in 14 genera and is distributed mainly in the southern half of South America, with only some genera extending into Guyana (Podoxymys) or Venezuela (Bolomys). It also includes genera previously placed in "Scapteromyini". The following genera are now generally recognized:

• Akodon
• Bibimys
• Blarinomys
• Bolomys
• Brucepattersonius
• Deltamys
• Juscelinomys
• Kunsia
• Lenoxus
• Necromys
• Oxymycterus
• Podoxymys
• Scapteromys
• Thalpomys
• Thaptomys

Akodon includes Chalcomys, Hypsimys, and Microxus, but does not include Deltamys, Thaptomys, Thalpomys, Bolomys and Necromys.

The tribe Abrothrichini has recently been split from the akodontines.