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 Philander vossi Gardner and Ramírez-Pulido, 2020 TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: USNM 58158, the holotype (by replacement of a preoccupied name; ICZN, 1999 : Article 72.7), consists of the skin and skull of an adult male collected at Orizaba ( 18.85° N , 97.10° W ; 1280 m ), Veracruz state , Mexico . SYNONYMS: pallidus J.A. Allen, 1901 (preoccupied; see Remarks). DISTRIBUTION: Sequenced specimens suggest that Philander vossi occurs in Mexico , Belize , and El Salvador (Voss et al., 2018: fig. 3), but it seems likely to also occur in Guatemala and perhaps other Central American countries. REMARKS: Gardner and Ramírez-Pulido (2020) proposed Philander vossi as a replacement name for the species previously known as P. pallidus , which is preoccupied by Philan- der laniger pallidus Thomas, 1899 (= Caluromys derbianus ; see above). Phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence data (Voss et al., 2018) suggest that P. vossi is the sister taxon of P. melanurus , but consistent morphological criteria for distinguishing these putative species have yet to be discovered.