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Monodelphis (Mygalodelphys) osgoodi Doutt 1938

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Description

Monodelphis (Mygalodelphys) osgoodi Doutt, 1938

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: CM 5242, the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of an adult male collected at Incachaca (17.23° S, 65.68° W; 2600 m), Cochabamba department, Bolivia.

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Although specimens alleged to be Monodelphis osgoodi are known from central Peru to central Bolivia (Pine and Handley, 2008: map 43), it is not clear that any, except Bolivian material from Cochabamba department and two specimens from La Paz (all sequenced by Pavan et al., 2014: SI, table 1) are correctly identified (see Remarks).

REMARKS: No emended description of Monodelphis osgoodi that mentions all the characters now known to distinguish species in the subgenus Mygalodelphys has been published. As a result, the morphological traits that diagnose this species from its sister taxon, M. peruviana, are poorly documented. The current recognition of M. osgoodi as a valid species is largely based on DNA sequence data (Solari, 2007, 2010; Pavan et al., 2014), an obviously unsatisfactory situation.

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 pages 27-28, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7161371

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CM
Material sample ID
CM 5242
Scientific name authorship
Doutt
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Didelphimorphia
Family
Didelphidae
Genus
Monodelphis
Species
osgoodi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Monodelphis (Mygalodelphys) osgoodi Doutt, 1938 sec. Voss, 2022

References

  • Pavan, S. E., S. A. Jansa, and R. S. Voss. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of short-tailed opossums (Didelphidae: Monodelphis): taxonomic implications and tests of evolutionary hypotheses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79: 199 - 214.
  • Solari, S. 2007. New species of Monodelphis (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) from Peru, with notes on M. adusta (Thomas, 1897). Journal of Mammalogy 88: 319 - 329.
  • Solari, S. 2010. A molecular perspective on the diversification of short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis: Didelphidae). Mastozoologia Neotropical 17: 317 - 333.