Pikumche pericote

Pikumche pericote
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Loxodontomys
Species:	L. pikumche
Binomial name
*Loxodontomys pikumche* Spotorno, Cofre, Vilina, Marquet & Walker, 1998

The Pikumche pericote (Loxodontomys pikumche) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known only from central Chile, where its range includes xeric shrublands (the matorral).^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b D'Elia, G., Pardinas, U. & Teta, P. (2008). Loxodontomys pikumche. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 16 April 2009.

Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.