Published December 31, 1982 | Version v1
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Monodelphis touan

Description

Monodelphis touan (Shaw, 1800). Gen. ZooL, 1 (2):432.

TYPE LOCALITY: French Guiana, Cayenne.

DISTRIBUTION: Brazil; Paraguay; N. Argentina; French Guiana; Guyana; Surinam.

COMMENT: Includes emiliae; see Cabrera, 1958:9. M. emiliae is considered a valid species according to Pine and Handley, in prep (RHP) and touan is probably a junior synonym of brevicaudata (RHP).

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Marsupialia, pp. 18-51 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353009

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Didelphidae
Genus
Monodelphis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Marsupialia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Shaw
Species
touan
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Monodelphis touan (Shaw, 1800) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Cabrera, A. 1958. Dos felidos argentinos ineditos (Mammalia, Carnivora). Neotropica, 3 (12): 70 - 72.