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Gracilinanus Gardner and Creighton 1989

Description

Gracilinanus Gardner and Creighton 1989

Gracilinanus Gardner and Creighton 1989, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 102: 4.

Type Species: Didelphys microtarsus Wagner 1842

Synonyms: Grymaeomys Burmeister 1854.

Species and subspecies: 9 species with 2 subspecies:

Species Gracilinanus aceramarcae (Tate 1931)

Species Gracilinanus agilis (Burmeister 1854)

Species Gracilinanus agricolai (Moojen 1943)

Species Gracilinanus dryas (Thomas 1898)

Species Gracilinanus emiliae (Thomas 1909)

Species Gracilinanus formosus (Shamel 1930)

Species Gracilinanus ignitus Díaz, Flores, and Barquez 2002

Species Gracilinanus marica (Thomas 1898)

Species Gracilinanus microtarsus (Wagner 1842)

Subspecies Gracilinanus microtarsus subsp. microtarsus Wagner 1842

Subspecies Gracilinanus microtarsus subsp. guahybae Tate 1931

Discussion: Previously in Marmosa (sensu lato; see Gardner and Creighton, 1989).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Didelphimorphia, pp. 3-18 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Didelphidae
Genus
Gracilinanus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Didelphimorphia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gardner and Creighton
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Gracilinanus and, 1989 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Gardner, A. L., and G. K. Creighton. 1989. A new generic name for Tate's microtarsus group of South American mouse opossums (Marsupialia: Didelphidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 102: 3 - 7.