Philip Myers' akodont is a recently described species of grass mouse from one of 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country in what region?
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Philip Myers' akodont Philip Myers' akodont ("Akodon philipmyersi") is a recently described species of grass mouse from Misiones Province, Argentina. Like other grass mice, A. philipmyersi is a small, non-descript, greyish-brown mouse with prominent ears. The species was recognized as distinct from other grass mice on the basis of unique features of karyology, genetic sequence, cranial measurements, and general morphology.
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Misiones Province Misiones (] , "Missions") is one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by Paraguay to the northwest, Brazil to the north, east and south, and Corrientes Province of Argentina to the southwest.
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Argentine Littoral The Argentine littoral (Spanish: "Litoral argentino" ) is a region of Argentina formed by the Mesopotamia region along with the provinces of Chaco, Formosa and Santa Fe. Before Argentina became independent, present-day Uruguay and Paraguay were also included in the littoral region.
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Peru Peru ( ; Spanish: "Perú" ] ; Quechua: "Piruw" ] ; Aymara: "Piruw" ] ), officially the Republic of Peru (Spanish:    ), is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is an extremely biodiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains vertically extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon Basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon river.
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Chihuahuan pocket mouse The Chihuahuan pocket mouse ("Chaetodipus eremicus") is a species of heteromyid rodent found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the desert pocket mouse ("C. pencillatus"), but was determined to be a distinct species in 1996, following analysis of its mitochondrial DNA.
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Abrothrix longipilis Abrothrix longipilis, also known as the long-haired grass mouse or long-haired akodont, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in central and southern Argentina and Chile. The southern Chilean "Abrothrix sanborni" may not be distinct from this species.
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Kirchner's viscacha rat Kirchner's viscacha rat or Kirchner's vizcacha rat ("Tympanoctomys kirchnerorum") is a species of rodents in the family Octodontidae described in 2014. It is one of two species in the genus "Tympanoctomys". That species is endemic to Chubut Province in the central western Argentina, where it has a fragmented range. Its natural habitat is desert scrubland, dunes and salt flats, where it eats halophyte plants. It is a solitary, nocturnal rodent that constructs large mounds with complex burrows. The species was named in honor if both Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Néstor Kirchner, presidents of Argentina.
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Uruguay Department The Uruguay Department (in Spanish, Departamento Uruguay) is an administrative subdivision ("departamento") of the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It is located in the south-east of the province, beside the Uruguay River.
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Mexican spiny pocket mouse The Mexican spiny pocket mouse ("Heteromys irroratus") is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is native to Mexico and Texas in the United States where it is found in dry, scrubby habitats. The IUCN has assessed it as being of "least concern". It was formerly placed in the genus "Liomys", which is now recognized to be paraphyletic and has been subsumed into "Heteromys".
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Southern Plains woodrat The Southern Plains woodrat ("Neotoma micropus") is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in northwest Mexico and in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas in the United States.
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Thespian grass mouse The thespian grass mouse or hocicudo-like akodont ("Akodon mimus") is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
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Macedonian mouse The Macedonian mouse ("Mus macedonicus") is a species of rodent in the family Muridae and order Rodentia. This rodent lives in the area from eastern Georgia and western Bulgaria to Israel. It is considered part of a Paleoarctic group along with three other types of rodents: M. musculus, M. spicilegus, and M. spretus.
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Iguazú National Reserve The Iguazú National Reserve (Spanish: "Reserva Nacional Iguazú" ) is a national reserve in the Misiones Province of northeastern Argentina.
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Tierra del Fuego Province, Chile Tierra del Fuego Province (Spanish: "Provincia de Tierra del Fuego" ) is one of four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena (XII). It includes the Chilean or western part of the main island of Tierra del Fuego, except for the part south of the Cordillera Darwin, which is in Antártica Chilena Province. (Argentina also has a Tierra del Fuego Province.)
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Pampa de Achala Pampa de Achala is the name given to a vast region that lies at the heart of the Sierras de Córdoba located within Sierras Pampeanas, and located in central-northwest of Argentina.
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Guanacaste Province Guanacaste (] ) is a province of Costa Rica located in the northwestern region of the country, along the coast of the Pacific Ocean. it borders Nicaragua to the north. To the east there is the Alajuela Province, and to the southeast is the Puntarenas Province. It is the most sparsely populated of all the provinces of Costa Rica. The province covers an area of 10141 km2 and as of 2010, had a population of 354,154.
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Woolly mouse opossum The woolly mouse opossum or long-furred woolly mouse opossum ("Marmosa demerarae"), known locally as the Cuíca, is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. Its range includes central Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and northern Brazil. It was formerly assigned to the genus "Micoureus", which was made a subgenus of "Marmosa" in 2009.
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North American Prairies Province The North American Prairies Province is a large grassland floristic province within the North American Atlantic Region, a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom. It lies between the Appalachian Province and the Rocky Mountains and includes the prairies of the Great Plains. It is bounded by the Canadian coniferous forests on the north and the arid semideserts to the southwest. The province itself is occupied by temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands (including such ecoregions as the Flint Hills tall grasslands, Sand Hills, High Plains). Endemism is rather limited in this province, and its boundaries are vague. During the Pleistocene much of the province was glaciated.
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Bolivian vesper mouse The Bolivian vesper mouse ("Calomys boliviae") is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia and perhaps Peru.
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Silent grass mouse The silent grass mouse or slate-bellied akodont ("Akodon surdus") is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Peru.
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Steppe mouse The steppe mouse or mound-building mouse ("Mus spicilegus") is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in grassland and other open areas in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
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Abrothrix sanborni Abrothrix sanborni, also known as Sanborn's grass mouse or Sanborn's akodont, is a species of rodent in the genus "Abrothrix" of family Cricetidae. It is found in southern Argentina and Chile, but may not be distinct from "A. longipilis".