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Abrothrix Temporal range: Pliocene to Recent
Abrothrix sanborni
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Sigmodontinae
Tribe:	Abrotrichini
Genus:	Abrothrix Waterhouse, 1837
Type species
Mus longipilis Waterhouse, 1837
Species
See text
Synonyms
Chroeomys Thomas, 1916 Habrothrix Wagner, 1843[fn 1]

Abrothrix is a genus of rodent in the tribe Abrotrichini of family Cricetidae.^[2] It contains the following living species:^[3]

• Abrothrix andina
• Abrothrix hershkovitzi
• Abrothrix hirta
• Abrothrix illutea
• Abrothrix jelskii
• Abrothrix lanosa
• Abrothrix longipilis
• Abrothrix manni ^[4]
• Abrothrix olivacea^{[fn 2]}
• Abrothrix sanborni
• Abrothrix xanthorhina

• MUSSER, G. G. AND M. D. CARLETON. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference, 3rd ed (Wilson DE and Reeder DAM eds.), Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
• D'Elía, G., Pardiñas, U.F.J., Teta, P. and Patton, J.L. 2007. Definition and diagnosis of a new tribe of sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae), and a revised classification of the subfamily. Gayana 71(2):187–194.
• TETA, P., C. CAÑÓN, B. D. PATTERSON, AND U. F. J. PARDIÑAS. 2017. Phylogeny of the tribe Abrotrichini (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae): integrating morphological and molecular evidence into a new classification. Cladistics 33(2):153–182.
• Rodríguez-Serrano, E., Hernández, C.E. and Palma, R.E. 2008. A new record and an evaluation of the phylogenetic relationships of Abrothrix olivaceus markhami (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). Mammalian Biology 73(4):309–317.