Synonyms

• Habrothrix Wagner, 1843: 519 [unjustified emendation of Abrothrix Waterhouse]

• Chroeomys Thomas, 1916: 340 [synonymised by D’Elía, 2003: 317]

Type species: Akodon pulcherrimus Thomas, 1916, by original designation.

Primary references

• Waterhouse, G.R. 1837. Notes on a collection of the genus Mus presented to the Society by Charles Darwin. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5: 15–22.
• Wagner, J.A. 1843. Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen von Dr. Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber. Supplementband. Dritter Abtheilung: Die Beutelthiere und Nager (erster Abschnitt). Erlangen: Expedition das Schreber’schen Säugthierund des Esper’sschen Schmetterlingswerkes, und in Commission der Voss’schen Buchhandlung in Leipzig, 3: xiv + 614 pp., pls. 85–165.
• Thomas, O. 1916. The grouping of the South- American Muridae commonly referred to Akodon. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History series 8 18: 336–340.
• D’Elía, G. 2003 Phylogenetics of Sigmodontinae (Rodentia, Muroidea, Cricetidae), with special reference to the akodont group, and with additional comments on historical biogeography. Cladistics 19(4): 307–323. DOI: 10.1016/S0748-3007(03)00071-9

Additional references

• Spotorno, A.E., Zuleta, C.A. & Cortes, A. 1990. Evolutionary systematics and heterochrony in Abrothrix species (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Evolución Biológica 4: 37–62.
• Smith, M.F. & Patton, J.L. 1991. Variation in mitochondrial cytochrome-b sequence in natural populations of South American akodontine rodents (Muridae: Sigmodontinae). Molecular Biology and Evolution 8(1): 85–103.
• Smith, M.F. & Patton, J.L. 1993. The diversification of South American murid rodents: evidence from mtDNA sequence data for the akodontine tribe. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 50(3): 149–177. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1993.tb00924.x
• Pearson, O.P. & Smith, M.F. 1999. Genetic similarity between Akodon olivaceus and Akodon xanthorhinus (Rodentia: Muridae) in Argentina. Journal of Zoology 247(1): 43–52. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1999.tb00191.x
• Smith, M.F. & Patton, J.L. 1999. Phylogenetic relationships and the radiation of sigmodontine rodents in South America: evidence from cytochrome-b. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 6(2): 89–128. DOI: 10.1023/A:1020668004578
• Smith, M.F., Kelt, D.A. & Patton, J.L. 2001. Testing models of diversification in mice in the Abrothrix olivaceus/xanthorhinus complex in Chile and Argentina. Molecular Ecology 10(2): 397–405. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2001.01183.x
• Teta, P., D’Elía, G., Pardiñas, U.F.J., Jayat, J.P. & Ortiz, P. 2011. Phylogenetic position and morphology of Abrothrix illutea Thomas, 1925, with comments on the incongruence between gene trees of Abrothrix (Rodentia, Cricetidae) and their implications for the delimitation of the genus. Zoosystematics and Evolution 87(2): 227–241. DOI: 10.1002/zoos.201100005
• Teta, P. & Pardiñas, U.F.J. 2014. Variación morfológica cualitativa y cuantitativa en Abrothrix longipilis (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae). Mastozoología Neotropical 21(2): 291–309. Full article (PDF)

• Patterson, B.D., Smith, M.F. & Teta, P. 2015. Genus Abrothrix Waterhouse, 1837. Pp. 109–127 in Patton, J.L., Pardiñas, U.F.J. & D’Elía, G. (eds.), Mammals of South America. Volume 2. Rodents. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, Illinois. ISBN 978-0-226-16957-6. Reference page. 

• D’Elía, G., Teta, P., Upham, N.S., Pardiñas, U.F.J. & Patterson, B.D. 2015. Description of a new soft-haired mouse, genus Abrothrix (Sigmodontinae), from the temperate Valdivian rainforest. Journal of Mammalogy 96(4): 839–853. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyv103 Reference page. 

Links

• Abrothrix in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.