''Brucepattersonius griserufescens'', also known as the gray-bellied akodontMusser and Carleton, 2005 or grey-bellied brucie,Duff and Lawson, 2004 is a

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in the cricetid genus ''

Brucepattersonius ''Brucepattersonius'' is a genus of rodents within the tribe Akodontini from southeastern South America. Also known as brucies, the genus is named after Bruce Patterson, MacArthur Curator at the Department of Zoology (Mammals), at the Field Mu ...

'' from southeastern

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, specifically the states of

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and

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between 1,300 and 2,700 meters. It was one of four species of ''Brucepattersonius'' described by Hershkovitz in 1998; another, ''Brucepattersonius albinasus'', also known as the white-nosed akodont or white-nosed brucie, was later argued to be the same as ''B. griserufescens'',Vilela et al., 2006 though further work is needed to confirm this. It is threatened by habitat loss but is also protected by

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References

Literature cited

*Duff, A. and Lawson, A. 2004. Mammals of the World: A checklist. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 312 pp. *Hershkovitz, P. (1998). Report of some sigmodontinae rodents collected in southeastern Brazil with description of a new genus and six new species. ''Bonner Zoologische Beitraege, 47'', 193–256. * *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. *Vilela, J. F., J. A. de Oliveira, and C. R. Bonvicino (2006). Taxonomic status of ''Brucepattersonius albinasus'' (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). ''Zootaxa, 1199'', 61–68. *Patton, J.L., Pardiñas, Ulyses F.J., D'Elía Guillermo (2015)
Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents

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