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Monodelphis (Monodelphis) arlindoi Pavan 2012

Description

Monodelphis (Monodelphis) arlindoi Pavan et al., 2012

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: MPEG 38052, the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin, skull, and preserved tissues of an adult male collected at Platô Grieg (1.83° S, 56.42° W; 160 m), 43 km SW Porto Trombetas, Pará state, Brazil.

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Monodelphis arlindoi occurs in lowland rainforest in central and southern Guyana and Brazil; in Brazil, it occurs north of the Amazon in southeastern Roraima, eastern Amazonas, and northern Pará (Pavan et al., 2012: fig. 6)

REMARKS: Monodelphis arlindoi is one of three species currently recognized within what was once considered to be M. brevicaudata (e.g., by Voss et al., 2001; Pine and Handley, 2008).

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 23, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7161371

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MPEG
Family
Didelphidae
Genus
Monodelphis
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
MPEG 38052
Order
Didelphimorphia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Pavan
Species
arlindoi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Monodelphis (Monodelphis) arlindoi Pavan, 2012 sec. Voss, 2022

References

  • Pavan, S. E., R. V. Rossi, and H. Schneider. 2012. Species diversity in the Monodelphis brevicaudata complex (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) inferred from molecular and morphological data, with the description of a new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 190 - 223.
  • Voss, R. S., D. P. Lunde, and N. B. Simmons. 2001. Mammals of Paracou, French Guiana: a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 2. Nonvolant species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 263: 1 - 236.