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Didelphinae Gray 1821

Description

Subfamily Didelphinae Gray, 1821

TYPE GENUS: Didelphis Linnaeus, 1758.

SYNONYMS: Chironectinae Hershkovitz, 1997; Lutreolininae Hershkovitz, 1997.

REMARKS: See Voss and Jansa (2009: 100) for a morphological diagnosis. Monophyly of the nominotypical subfamily has been consistently and strongly supported by phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence datasets (e.g., Voss and Jansa, 2009; Amador and Giannini, 2016).

Notes

Published as part of Voss, Robert S., 2022, An Annotated Checklist Of Recent Opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae), pp. 1-77 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2022 (455) on page 10, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7161371

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Didelphidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Didelphimorphia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gray
Taxon rank
subFamily
Taxonomic concept label
Didelphinae Gray, 1821 sec. Voss, 2022

References

  • Hershkovitz, P. 1997. Composition of the family Didelphidae Gray, 1821 (Didelphoidea: Marsupialia), with a review of the morphology and behavior of the included four-eyed opossums of the genus Philander Tiedemann, 1808. Fieldiana Zoology (new ser.) 86: i - iv, 1 - 103.