Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Synapsida
Cladus: Eupelycosauria
Cladus: Sphenacodontia
Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea
Cladus: Therapsida
Cladus: Theriodontia
Subordo: Cynodontia
Infraordo: Eucynodontia
Cladus: Probainognathia
Cladus: Prozostrodontia
Cladus: Mammaliaformes
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Trechnotheria
Infraclassis: Zatheria
Supercohors: Theria
Cohors: Eutheria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Cladus: Boreoeutheria
Superordo: Euarchontoglires
Ordo: Rodentia
Subordo: Myomorpha
Superfamilia: Muroidea
Familia: Cricetidae
Subfamilia: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Abrotrichini
Genus: Abrothrix
Species (10): A. andina – A. hershkovitzi – A. hirta – A. illutea – A. jelskii – A. lanosa – A. longipilis – A. manni – A. olivacea – A. sanborni
Name
Abothrix Waterhouse, 1837: 21
Type species: Mus longipilis Waterhouse, 1837, by original designation.
Synonyms
Habrothrix Wagner, 1843: 519 [unjustified emendation of Abrothrix Waterhouse]
Chroeomys Thomas, 1916: 340 [synonymised by D’Elía, 2003: 317]
Type species: Akodon pulcherrimus Thomas, 1916, by original designation.
References
Primary references
Waterhouse, G.R. 1837. Notes on a collection of the genus Mus presented to the Society by Charles Darwin. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5: 15–22.
Wagner, J.A. 1843. Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen von Dr. Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber. Supplementband. Dritter Abtheilung: Die Beutelthiere und Nager (erster Abschnitt). Erlangen: Expedition das Schreber’schen Säugthierund des Esper’sschen Schmetterlingswerkes, und in Commission der Voss’schen Buchhandlung in Leipzig, 3: xiv + 614 pp., pls. 85–165.
Thomas, O. 1916. The grouping of the South- American Muridae commonly referred to Akodon. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History series 8 18: 336–340.
D’Elía, G. 2003 Phylogenetics of Sigmodontinae (Rodentia, Muroidea, Cricetidae), with special reference to the akodont group, and with additional comments on historical biogeography. Cladistics 19(4): 307–323. DOI: 10.1016/S0748-3007(03)00071-9
Additional references
Spotorno, A.E., Zuleta, C.A. & Cortes, A. 1990. Evolutionary systematics and heterochrony in Abrothrix species (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Evolución Biológica 4: 37–62.
Smith, M.F. & Patton, J.L. 1991. Variation in mitochondrial cytochrome-b sequence in natural populations of South American akodontine rodents (Muridae: Sigmodontinae). Molecular Biology and Evolution 8(1): 85–103.
Smith, M.F. & Patton, J.L. 1993. The diversification of South American murid rodents: evidence from mtDNA sequence data for the akodontine tribe. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 50(3): 149–177. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1993.tb00924.x
Pearson, O.P. & Smith, M.F. 1999. Genetic similarity between Akodon olivaceus and Akodon xanthorhinus (Rodentia: Muridae) in Argentina. Journal of Zoology 247(1): 43–52. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1999.tb00191.x
Smith, M.F. & Patton, J.L. 1999. Phylogenetic relationships and the radiation of sigmodontine rodents in South America: evidence from cytochrome-b. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 6(2): 89–128. DOI: 10.1023/A:1020668004578
Smith, M.F., Kelt, D.A. & Patton, J.L. 2001. Testing models of diversification in mice in the Abrothrix olivaceus/xanthorhinus complex in Chile and Argentina. Molecular Ecology 10(2): 397–405. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2001.01183.x
Teta, P., D’Elía, G., Pardiñas, U.F.J., Jayat, J.P. & Ortiz, P. 2011. Phylogenetic position and morphology of Abrothrix illutea Thomas, 1925, with comments on the incongruence between gene trees of Abrothrix (Rodentia, Cricetidae) and their implications for the delimitation of the genus. Zoosystematics and Evolution 87(2): 227–241. DOI: 10.1002/zoos.201100005
Teta, P. & Pardiñas, U.F.J. 2014. Variación morfológica cualitativa y cuantitativa en Abrothrix longipilis (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae). Mastozoología Neotropical 21(2): 291–309. Full article (PDF)
Patterson, B.D., Smith, M.F. & Teta, P. 2015. Genus Abrothrix Waterhouse, 1837. Pp. 109–127 in Patton, J.L., Pardiñas, U.F.J. & D’Elía, G. (eds.), Mammals of South America. Volume 2. Rodents. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, Illinois. ISBN 978-0-226-16957-6. Reference page.
D’Elía, G., Teta, P., Upham, N.S., Pardiñas, U.F.J. & Patterson, B.D. 2015. Description of a new soft-haired mouse, genus Abrothrix (Sigmodontinae), from the temperate Valdivian rainforest. Journal of Mammalogy 96(4): 839–853. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyv103 Reference page.
Links
Abrothrix in Mammal Species of the World.
Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
Abrothrix is a genus of rodent in the tribe Abrotrichini of family Cricetidae.[2] It contains the following living species:[3]
Abrothrix andina
Abrothrix hershkovitzi
Abrothrix hirta
Abrothrix illutea
Abrothrix jelskii
Abrothrix lanosa
Abrothrix longipilis
Abrothrix manni [4]
Abrothrix olivacea[fn 2]
Abrothrix sanborni
Abrothrix xanthorhina
Footnotes
Misspelling.[1]
Includes A. o. markhami as a subspecies.[5]
References
Musser and Carleton, 2005, p. 1088
D'Elía et al., 2007
Teta et al., 2017
D'Elia G, Teta P, Upham NS, Pardinas UFJ & Patterson BD (2015) Description of a new soft-haired mouse, genus Abrothrix (Sigmodontinae), from the temperate Valdivian rainforest. Journal of Mammalogy 96; 4: 839-853
Rodríguez-Serrano et al., 2008
Literature cited
MUSSER, G. G. AND M. D. CARLETON. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference, 3rd ed (Wilson DE and Reeder DAM eds.), Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
D'Elía, G., Pardiñas, U.F.J., Teta, P. and Patton, J.L. 2007. Definition and diagnosis of a new tribe of sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae), and a revised classification of the subfamily. Gayana 71(2):187–194.
TETA, P., C. CAÑÓN, B. D. PATTERSON, AND U. F. J. PARDIÑAS. 2017. Phylogeny of the tribe Abrotrichini (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae): integrating morphological and molecular evidence into a new classification. Cladistics 33(2):153–182.
Rodríguez-Serrano, E., Hernández, C.E. and Palma, R.E. 2008. A new record and an evaluation of the phylogenetic relationships of Abrothrix olivaceus markhami (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). Mammalian Biology 73(4):309–317.
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