Microakodontomys Hershkovitz 1993

Moreira, Camila Do Nascimento, Ventura, Karen, Percequillo, Alexandre Reis & Yonenaga-Yassuda, Yatiyo, 2020, A review on the cytogenetics of the tribe Oryzomyini (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae), with the description of new karyotypes, Zootaxa 4876 (1), pp. 1-111 : 29-30

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scientific name	Microakodontomys Hershkovitz 1993
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Monotypic genus represented by M. transitorius ( Hershkovitz 1993) , that inhabits the fringe zone between open grassland and bordering scrubland of the Brazilian Cerrado ( Hershkovitz 1993; Prado & Percequillo 2013; Paresque & Hanson 2015).

Karyotype: 2n = 38 and FN = 46. Autosomal complement: five small pairs of biarmed elements, and 13 acrocentric pairs decreasing in size. Sex chromosomes: X, a large submetacentric; Y, a small submetacentric, as mentioned by Paresque & Hanson (2015).