Published November 14, 2025
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Caluromys derbianus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy
- 2. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy & PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Bezuidenhoutseweg 30, 2594 AV The Hague, Netherlands
- 3. Asociación Ecológica Paquera, Lepanto y Cóbano, PO Box 25 - 5353, Jicaral, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
- 4. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy
- 5. Associazione Foreste per Sempre OdV, Via D'Avia Sud 65 / a, 41126 Modena, Italy
- 6. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy & Associazione Foreste per Sempre OdV, Via D'Avia Sud 65 / a, 41126 Modena, Italy
Description
Caluromys derbianus (Waterhouse, 1841)
Material examined.
Costa Rica • Puntarenas Province, Karen Mogensen Wildlife Refuge; 09°52'09"N, 085°03'30"W; 290 m alt.; 26.03.2021; direct observation.
Identification.
Medium-sized. Characterised by a grey and reddish-orange fur, pink ears, and by a half-white and half-furred tail. The body is slender, with a prehensile tail constituting 58–67 % of total length (Wainwright 2007; Astúa 2015). Uncommon in the Wildlife Refuge. Recorded in different habitat types.
Notes
Published as part of Fonda, Federica, Vezzani, Liam, Mena Aguilar, Luis Ángel, Venegas-Elizondo, Carlos Andrés, Bolaños Brenes, Alexander, Lopez, Dayron Manuel, Romeo, Giuseppe, Sonetti, Dario & Dal Zotto, Matteo, 2025, Mammal diversity and tourism influence in an under-investigated region of Costa Rica, pp. 37-74 in ZooKeys 1260 on pages 37-74, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1260.128800
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2021-03-26
- Verbatim event date
- 2021-03-26
- Scientific name authorship
- Waterhouse
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Didelphimorpha
- Family
- Didelphidae
- Genus
- Caluromys
- Species
- derbianus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Caluromys derbianus (Waterhouse, 1841) sec. Fonda, Vezzani, Aguilar, Venegas-Elizondo, Brenes, Lopez, Romeo, Sonetti & Zotto, 2025
References
- Wainwright M (2007) The mammals of Costa Rica: A natural history and field guide. Zona Tropical, Comstock Publishing Associates, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, and London, United Kingdom, 454 pp.
- Astúa D (2015) Didelphidae. Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 5. Monotremes and Marsupials, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, 129–186. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6685333