Akodontini

Taxobox
name = Akodontini
fossil_range = Late Pliocene - Recent
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
superfamilia = Muroidea
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Sigmodontinae
tribus = Akodontini
tribus_authority = Vorontzov, 1959
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Akodon"
"Bibimys"
"Blarinomys"
"Brucepattersonius"
"Juscelinomys"
"Kunsia"
"Lenoxus"
"Necromys"
"Oxymycterus"
"Podoxymys"
"Scapteromys"
"Thalpomys"

Akodontini is the second most speciose tribe of the subfamily Sigmodontinae. It includes at least 106 living species in 19 genera and is distributed mainly in the southern half of South America, with only two genera extending into Guyana ("Podoxymys") and Venezuela ("Necromys"). It also includes genera previously placed in tribe Scapteromyini. The following genera are now generally recognized:

*"Abrothrix"
*"Akodon"
*"Bibimys"
*"Blarinomys"
*"Brucepattersonius"
*"Chelemys"
*"Deltamys"
*"Geoxus"
*"Juscelinomys"
*"Kunsia"
*"Lenoxus"
*"Necromys" - sometimes referred to as "Bolomys"
*"Notiomys"
*"Oxymycterus"
*"Pearsonomys"
*"Podoxymys"
*"Scapteromys"
*"Thalpomys"
*"Thaptomys"

"Chalcomys", "Hypsimys", and "Microxus" have been synonymized under the genus "Akodon", and "Chroeomys" has been placed under "Abrothrix".

A southern clade, including the genera "Abrothrix", "Chelemys", "Geoxus", "Notiomys", and "Pearsonomys", consists of the '"Abrothricines" and has recently been recognized as separate from the tribe "Akodontini" in the strict sense, but a separate tribe for the "Abrothricines" has not yet been formally recognized.