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
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journal article
10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1
0003-0090
Chacodelphys formosa
(Shamel, 1930)
TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY:
USNM 236330
, the
holotype
by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of a young adult male collected at Estancia Linda Vista (
25.22° S
,
59.78° W
; ca.
100 m
) on the
Riacho Pilagá
,
Formosa province
,
Argentina
.
SYNONYMS:
muscula
Shamel, 1930 (preoccupied).
DISTRIBUTION: All known specimens of
Chacodelphys formosa
are from Chacoan landscapes in northern
Argentina
(
Chaco
,
Formosa
, and Misiones;
Teta et al., 2006
; Teta and Pardiñas, 2007)
REMARKS:
Chacodelphys formosa
is currently known from just a handful of specimens, most of which were recovered from owl vomitus.