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
Genus
Cryptonanus
Voss et al., 2005
TYPE
SPECIES:
Marmosa agilis chacoensis
Tate, 1931
, by original designation.
SYNONYMS: None.
REMARKS: See Voss and Jansa (2009) for an emended generic description. Phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence datasets strongly support generic monophyly and convincingly recover
Cryptonanus
and
Chacodelphys
as sister taxa in a larger clade that includes
Gracilinanus
,
Lestodelphys
, and
Thylamys
, but not
Marmosops
(
Díaz-Nieto et al., 2016a
;
Fegies et al., 2021
). Of the five species originally referred to
Cryptonanus
by
Voss et al. (2005)
, only four are now recognized as valid. Currently recognized species of
Cryptonanus
are all from south of the Amazon (in
Brazil
,
Paraguay
,
Bolivia
,
Uruguay
, and
Argentina
), but specimens of a possibly undescribed species have been reported from Amapá (
Silva et al., 2013
) and
French Guiana
(Baglan and Catzeflis, 2016).