Ashaninka Oldfield mouse


The Ashaninka Oldfield mouse is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known only from a single locality in the Cordillera Oriental of the southern Peruvian Andes, in montane forest at an elevation of 3350 m. It has terrestrial habits. The common name refers to the Asháninka, the largest indigenous group of the Peruvian Amazon.