Transitional colilargo
Conservation status

Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification edit
(disputed)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Microakodontomys
Hershkovitz, 1993
Species:
M. transitorius
Binomial name
Microakodontomys transitorius
Hershkovitz, 1993

The transitional colilargo (Microakodontomys transitorius) also known as the intermediate lesser grass mouse, is a species of rodent in the tribe Oryzomyini known only from two individuals found in the Federal District of Brazil. Although described as a link between oryzomyine and akodontine rodents and placed in its own genus, Microakodontomys, Weksler and coworkers dismissed it as an aberrant Oligoryzomys.

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