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Thylamys (Xerodelphys) Giarla 2010

Description

Subgenus Xerodelphys Giarla et al., 2010

TYPE SPECIES: Thylamys karimii (Petter, 1968), by original designation.

SYNONYMS: None.

REMARKS: Although the monophyly of Xerodelphys has been consistently supported by phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence datasets (e.g., Giarla et al., 2010; Díaz et al., 2016a; Amador and Giannini, 2016), nodal support for this clade is seldom strong. However, compelling evidence for subgeneric monophyly is provided by the unusual caudal and manual morphologies illustrated by Carmignotto and Monfort (2006). Two species are currently recognized as valid.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Didelphidae
Genus
Thylamys
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Didelphimorphia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Giarla
Taxon rank
subGenus
Taxonomic concept label
Thylamys (Xerodelphys) Giarla, 2010 sec. Voss, 2022

References

  • Giarla, T. C., R. S. Voss, and S. A. Jansa. 2010. Species limits and phylogenetic relationships in the didelphid marsupial genus Thylamys based on mitochondrial DNA sequences and morphology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 346: 1 - 67.