Pearson’s Long-clawed Akodont – Pearsonomys annectens

Pearsonomys annectensPatterson, 1992

Accepted name, Mammal Species of the World 2005

Another species endemic to the austral Nothofagus temperate rainforests, highlighting the importance of the S Andean region in understanding biotic genesis and sigmodontine biogeography (see Patterson, 1992b).

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.