A new species of Akodon (Muridae: Sigmodontinae) from Northwestern Argentina

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 786-798

  Díaz, M Monica ^a   Barquez, Rubén M ^a   Braun, Janet K ^b   Mares, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Akodon; Argentina; Sigmodontinae; South America; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AKODON; AKODON PUER; AKODON SPEGAZZINII; MURIDAE; RODENTIA; SIGMODONTINAE;

EID: 0000957527     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1383248     Document Type: Article

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