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Monodelphis brevicaudata

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Monodelphis brevicaudata (Erxleben 1777)

[Monodelphis] brevicaudata (Erxleben 1777), Systema Regni Animalis, Vol. 1: 80.

Type Locality: "In Americae australis silvis;" restricted to Surinam by Matschie (1916).

Vernacular Names: Northern Red-sided Opossum.

Synonyms: Monodelphis brachyuros (Schreber 1777); Monodelphis dorsalis (J. A. Allen 1904); Monodelphis hunteri (Waterhouse 1841); Monodelphis orinoci (Thomas 1899); Monodelphis sebae (Gray 1827); Monodelphis surinamensis (Zimmermann 1780); Monodelphis touan (Bechstein 1800); Monodelphis touan (Shaw 1800); Monodelphis touan (Daudin in Lacépède 1802); Monodelphis tricolor (E. Geoffroy 1803).

Distribution: Venezuela, the Guianas, and adjacent Brasil.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Voss et al. (2001), who restricted the name to populations in the Guiana Region of northern South America. The name orinoci (Thomas) has been applied to populations in the Venezuelan Llanos north and west of the Orinoco by several authors (e.g., Reig et al., 1977; Linares, 1998). Apparently, that population lacks a name. The name brachyura Burnett, 1830, is an incorrect subsequent spelling of b rachyuros (Schreber).

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 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Family
Didelphidae
Genus
Monodelphis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Didelphimorphia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Erxleben
Species
brevicaudata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Monodelphis brevicaudata (Erxleben, 1777) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Erxleben, J. C. P. 1777. Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates, cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis I. Mammalia. Weygandianis, Lipsiae, 636 pp.
  • Matschie, P. 1916. Bemerkungen uber die Gattung Didelphis L. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1916 (1): 259 - 272.
  • Schreber, J. C. D. 1777. Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen 1776 - 1778. Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen, 3: 377 - 440, pls. 104 B, 107 Aa, 109 B, 110 B, 115 B, 125 B, 127 B, 136, 146 A.
  • [Gray, J. E.]. 1827. Synopsis of the species of the Class Mammalia, as arranged with reference to their organization, by Cuvier, and other naturalists, with specific characters, synonyma, & c. & c., vol. 5, in The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed. (E. Griffith, C. H. Smith, and E. Pidgeon, eds.). G. B. Whittaker, London, 391 pp.
  • Shaw, G. 1800. General zoology or systematic natural history. G. Kearsley, London, 12: 1 - 330.
  • Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, E. 1803. Catalogue des mammiferes du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 272 pp.
  • Linares, O. J. 1998. Mamiferos de Venezuela. Sociedad Conservacionista Audubon de Venezuela, Caracas, 691 pp.