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Chacodelphys formosa
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Chacodelphys formosa (Shamel, 1930)
TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: USNM 236330, the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of a young adult male collected at Estancia Linda Vista (25.22° S, 59.78° W; ca. 100 m) on the Riacho Pilagá, Formosa province, Argentina.
SYNONYMS: muscula Shamel, 1930 (preoccupied).
DISTRIBUTION: All known specimens of Chacodelphys formosa are from Chacoan landscapes in northern Argentina (Chaco, Formosa, and Misiones; Teta et al., 2006; Teta and Pardiñas, 2007)
REMARKS: Chacodelphys formosa is currently known from just a handful of specimens, most of which were recovered from owl vomitus.
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 41, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7161371
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/7161371 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF9DFFAEFFC8FFDAAD4A3C70FFEBFFEA (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03A487D6FFE1FFF3ADED3DE7FDC7FC5F (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- USNM
- Material sample ID
- USNM 236330
- Scientific name authorship
- Shamel
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Didelphimorphia
- Family
- Didelphidae
- Genus
- Chacodelphys
- Species
- formosa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chacodelphys formosa (Shamel, 1930) sec. Voss, 2022
References
- Teta, P., U. F. J. Pardinas, and G. D'Elia. 2006. Rediscovery of Chacodelphys: a South American marsupial previously known from a single specimen. Mammalian Biology 71: 309 - 314.