View source for Geoxus annectens

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}
{{Speciesbox
| fossil_range =
| image =
| status = VU
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Patterson, B. |author2=D'Elia, G. |date=2018 |title=''Geoxus annectens'' |volume=2018 |page=e.T40768A22345036 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T40768A22345036.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Geoxus
| species = annectens
| authority = (Patterson, 1992)
| synonyms = ''Pearsonomys annectens''
}}
'''''Geoxus annectens''''', also known as '''Pearson's long-clawed akodont'''<ref name=MC1160>{{MSW3 Muroidea | id = 13000848 | page = 1160}}</ref> or '''Pearson's long-clawed mouse''',<ref name = "Duff">{{cite book
| last = Duff | first = A. | author2=Lawson, A.
| title = Mammals of the World: A checklist | publisher = Yale University Press
| date = 2004-07-11 | location = New Haven, Connecticut | pages = 63
| url = http://google.com/books?id=kMxjL_xRkC4C&dq&pg=PA63
| isbn = 978-0-7136-6021-0 | oclc = 56204329}}</ref> is a species of [[rodent]] in the tribe [[Abrotrichini]] of family [[Cricetidae]]. Molecular data suggests that its closest relative is ''[[Geoxus valdivianus]]''.<ref name = MSW3b>{{MSW3 Muroidea | id = 13000655 | page = 1116|heading = Genus ''Geoxus''}}</ref> Formerly classified in its own genus, ''Pearsonomys'', named after American zoologist [[Oliver Payne Pearson]],<ref name = "Lidicker">{{cite web
|last         = Lidicker
|first        = W. Z.
|author2      = Patton, J. L.
|title        = In Memoriam: Oliver Payne Pearson
|work         = Online Biographies of UC Faculty and Administrators
|publisher    = University of California
|url          = http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmemoriam/oliverpaynepearson.html
|access-date   = 2012-05-11
|archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120221235146/http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmemoriam/oliverpaynepearson.html
|archive-date = 2012-02-21
|url-status   = dead
}}</ref><ref name = "Beolens">{{Cite book
| last = Beolens | first = Bo |author2=Watkins, Michael |author3=Grayson, Michael
| title = The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals
| publisher = [[The Johns Hopkins University Press]]
| date = 2009-09-28| pages = 312–313
| url = http://google.com/books?id=I-kSmWLc6vYC&pg=PA312
| isbn = 978-0801893049| oclc = 270129903}}</ref> it was moved to ''Geoxus'' in 2016 after a morphological and genetic reevaluation of the tribe Abrotrichini.<ref name="TetaCañón2017">{{cite journal|last1= Teta|first1= P.|last2= Cañón|first2= C.|last3= Patterson|first3=B. D.|last4= Pardiñas|first4=U. F. J.|title= Phylogeny of the tribe Abrotrichini (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae): integrating morphological and molecular evidence into a new classification|journal= Cladistics|volume= 33|issue= 2|date= 2016-04-28|pages= 153–182|doi= 10.1111/cla.12164|doi-access= free}}</ref> This rodent is [[endemic]] to [[Chile]], where it is found in ''[[Nothofagus]]'' forest of the [[Valdivian temperate rainforest]] ecoregion.<ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021" />
==References==
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[[Category:Geoxus]]
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[[Category:Endemic fauna of Chile]]
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