An Annotated Checklist Of Recent Opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae)
Author
Voss, Robert S.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2022
2022-04-04
2022
455
1
77
https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-american-museum-of-natural-history/volume-455/issue-1/0003-0090.455.1.1/An-Annotated-Checklist-of-Recent-Opossums-Mammalia-Didelphidae/10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1.full
journal article
10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1
0003-0090
7161371
Genus
Marmosa
Gray, 1821
TYPE
SPECIES:
Didelphis murina
Linnaeus, 1758
, by monotypy.
SYNONYMS:
Asagis
Gloger, 1841
;
Grymaeomys
Burmeister, 1854
;
Cuica
Liais, 1872
;
Grayium
Kretzoi and Kretzoi, 2000
.
REMARKS: For an emended generic description see
Voss et al. (2014)
, who additionally recognized the five subgenera listed below. Although
Micoureus
was formerly regarded as a separate genus (e.g., by Gardner and Creighton, 2008a), the monophyly of
Marmosa
—as recognized herein, including
Micoureus
as a subgenus—has been consistently and strongly supported by phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence datasets (e.g., by Voss and Jansa, 2009;
Voss et al., 2014
; Amador and Giannini, 2016).