Akodon torques (Thomas, 1917)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 693

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Akodon torques (Thomas, 1917) . Smithson. Mise. Coll., 68:3.

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Cuzco Dept., Machu Picchu, 10,000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: E Andean cloud forest of SE Peru.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Akodon . Relegated to a subspecies of A. orophilus (e.g., Cabrera, 1961), but recent studies have revealed that torques is a genetically distinctive form related to A. mollis (Patton et al., 1989, 1990). Described as a species of Microxus but considered a member of Akodon proper by later authors ( Ellerman, 1941; Patton et al., 1989; Thomas, 1927).