Akodon spegazzinii Thomas, 1897

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 spegazzinii Thomas, 1897 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 20:216.

TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Salta Prov., lower Rio Cachi .

DISTRIBUTION: E Andean slopes, 400 to 1000 m, of NW Argentina.

SYNONYMS: alterus, tucumanensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Akodon . Karyology and morphometries reviewed, as A. boliviensis tucumanensis , by Barquez et al. (1980). Myers et al. (1990) segregated spegazzinii , with tucumanensis as a subspecies, as a species distinct from A. boliviensis . Significance of marginal genetic and morphologic divergence of alterus evaluated by Blaustein et al. (1992).