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Akodon mimus (Thomas, 1901). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 7:183. TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Puno Dept., Limbane, 2600 m. DISTRIBUTION: E Andean slopes of SE Peru to WC Bolivia. COMMENTS: Type species of Microxus, a taxon arranged either as a subgenus of Akodon (Cabrera, 1961), as a distinct akodontine genus (Ellerman, 1941; Gyldenstolpe, 1932; Reig, 1987; Thomas, 1916c), or as a synonym of the oxymycterine genus Abrothrix (Hershkovitz, 1966c). Preliminary electrophoretic evidence indicates that mimus is phyletically closer to species of Akodon sensu stricto than to those of Bolomys or Chroeomys (see Patton et al., 1989; Smith and Patton, 1991). Also see remarks under A. bogotensis.

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 691, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098