''Akodon azarae'', also known as Azara's akodont
[Musser and Carleton, 2005, p. 1093] or Azara's grass mouse,
[ is a ]rodent
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species
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from South America
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. It is found from southernmost Brazil
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through Paraguay
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and Uruguay
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into eastern Argentina
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.[ It is named after ]Spanish
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naturalist Félix de Azara
Félix Manuel de Azara y Perera (18 May 1746 – 20 October 1821) was a Spanish military officer, naturalist, and engineer.
Life
Félix de Azara was born on 18 May 1746 in Barbunales, Aragon. He joined the army and attended a Spanish military ...
.
References
Literature cited
*D'Elia, G. and Pardinas, U. 2008. . In IUCN. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2.
www.iucnredlist.org
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*Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005
Superfamily Muroidea
Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.)
Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp.
Mammals of Argentina
Mammals of Brazil
Mammals of Paraguay
Mammals of Uruguay
Rodents of South America
Akodon
Mammals described in 1829
Stored-product pests
Taxa named by Johann Baptist Fischer
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