Andean rat | |
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Conservation status
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![]() Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
Genus: | Lenoxus Thomas, 1909 |
Species: | L. apicalis
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Binomial name | |
Lenoxus apicalis (J.A. Allen, 1900)
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The Andean rat (Lenoxus apicalis) is the only species in the genus Lenoxus. It is a rodent in the tribe Akodontini found on the eastern slopes of the Andes of eastern Peru and western Bolivia.