Akodon nigrita (Lichtenstein, 1829)

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 : 691-692

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Akodon nigrita (Lichtenstein, 1829) . Darst. Säugeth., 7:pl. 35, fig. 1.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, vicinity of Rio de Janeiro .

DISTRIBUTION: SE Brazil, E Paraguay, and NE Argentina.

SYNONYMS: fuliginosus , henseli, orycter, subterraneus .

COMMENTS: Member of Thaptomys , usually segregated as a subgenus of Akodon (Cabrera, 1961; Massoia, 1963a) though Reig (1978, 1987) considered Thaptomys a full synonym of Akodon sensu stricto. Includes subterraneus , the type of Thaptomys (see Massoia, 1963a).