AnimaliaRodentiaCricetidaeGutiérrezEliécer E.Marinho-FilhoJaderThe mammalian faunas endemic to the Cerrado and the CaatingaZookeys1012017201764410515710.3897/zookeys.644.10827 Microakodontomys transitorius Hershkovitz, 1993Distribution.

Microakodontomys transitorius is endemic to the Cerrado, and has been recorded in the Brazilian Distrito Federal (Hershkovitz 1993, Bonvicino et al. 2014, Paresque and Hanson 2015).

Conservation status.

The red list of the IUCN ver. 3.1 assigned the category “Endangered” to Microakodontomys transitorius (see Marinho-Filho and Vieira 2010). The species appears in the official list of threatened species of Brazil with the category “Endangered” (ICMBIO-MMA 2016).

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