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
Subgenus
Micoureus
Lesson, 1842
TYPE
SPECIES:
Didelphis cinerea
Temminck, 1824
(=
Marmosa paraguayana
; see below), by subsequent designation (
Thomas, 1888a
)
SYNONYMS: None.
REMARKS:
Micoureus
was formerly ranked as a genus (e.g., by Gardner and Creighton, 2008a), but this clade has been consistently recovered nested within
Marmosa
by phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence datasets (Voss and Jansa, 2009;
Voss et al., 2014
; Amador and Giannini, 2016). Thirteen species are currently recognized, most of which can be sorted into one or another of several groups based on robustly supported phylogenetic relationships (table 1).