The Bogotá grass mouseDuff and Lawson, 2004 or Bogotá akodont,Musser and Carleton, 2005, p. 1093 (''Neomicroxus bogotensis'') is a species of

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in the family

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. It is found in the Andes eastern and central

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and northwestern

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. Alavarado-Serrano and D'Elía (2013) have assigned the species to a new genus, '' Neomicroxus'' along with '' Neomicroxus latebricola''.

References

Literature cited

*Alavarado-Serrano, D. F. and G. D'Elía. 2013. A new genus for the Andean mice ''Akodon latebricola'' and ''A. bogotensis''. (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). Journal of Mammalogy, 94:995–1015. *Duff, A. and Lawson, A. 2004. Mammals of the World: A checklist. New Haven: A & C Black. *Gómez-Laverde, M. and Rivas, B. 2008. . In IUCN. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2.
www.iucnredlist.org
. Downloaded on April 2, 2010. *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. Neomicroxus Mammals of Colombia Mammals of Venezuela Mammals of the Andes Altiplano Cundiboyacense Mammals described in 1895 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Sigmodontinae-stub