Sage's Rock Rat
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Sage's rock rat (''Aconaemys sagei'') is a species of
rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are na ...
in the family Octodontidae. It is found in
Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
and possibly
Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
.


References

* Aconaemys Mammals of Argentina Mammals of Chile Mammals described in 1984 Taxa named by Oliver Payne Pearson Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{rodent-stub