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Pardiñas' Andean mouse

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Pardiñas’ Andean mouse
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Thomasomys
Species:
T. pardignasi
Binomial name
Thomasomys pardignasi
Brito, Vaca-Puente, Koch & Tinoco, 2021[1]

Pardiñas’ Andean mouse (Thomasomys pardignasi) is a species of sigmodontine rodent in the family Cricetidae known from the Cordillera del Cóndor and Cordillera de Kutukú, Ecuador. The species is named after Argentine palaeontologist Ulyses Pardiñas [de].[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Brito, J.; Vaca-Puente, S.; Koch, C.; Tinoco, N. (2021). "Discovery of the first Amazonian Thomasomys (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae): a new species from the remote Cordilleras del Cóndor and Kutukú in Ecuador". Journal of Mammalogy. 102 (2): 615–635. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyaa183.