Phyllotis amicus Thomas 1900

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1161

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scientific name	Phyllotis amicus Thomas 1900
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Phyllotis amicus Thomas 1900 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 5: 355.

Type Locality: Perú, Cajamarca Dept., Tolón, 100 m.

Vernacular Names: Peruvian Pericote.

Synonyms: Phyllotis maritimus Thomas 1900 ; Phyllotis montanus Thomas 1900 .

Distribution: Coast and lower Pacific slopes of W Perú, Depts. Piura (see Lavrentchenko and Dmitriev, 1994) to Ayacucho.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Sister species of P. limatus according to phylogenetic analysis of abbreviated cytochrome b sequences ( Spotorno et al., 2001). The basis for the reported presence of P. amicus in Argentina ( Heinonen Fortabat and Chebez, 1997; Massoia and Donadío, 1990) has been reidentified as an example of Oligoryzomys chacoensis ( Galliari et al., 1996) .