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
Caluromys
J.A. Allen, 1900
TYPE
SPECIES:
Didelphis philander
Linnaeus, 1758
, by original designation.
2
SYNONYMS: None.
2
Voss and Jansa (2009: table 15) incorrectly attributed the
type
designation to
Hershkovitz (1949)
.
REMARKS: See Voss and Jansa (2009) for an emended generic description. Generic monophyly is strongly supported by phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence data (e.g., Voss and Jansa, 2009; Amador and Giannini, 2016). Two subgenera are currently recognized.