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 Marmosops ( Marmosops ) creightoni Voss et al., 2004 TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: CBF 6552 , the holotype by original designation, consists of the fluid-preserved body and extracted skull of an adult male collected at the Saynani electrical generating station (ca. 16.12° S , 68.08° W ; 2500 m ) in the valley of the Río Zongo , La Paz department, Bolivia . SYNONYMS: None. DISTRIBUTION: Marmosops creightoni is known to occur only in montane forests above 2000 m on the eastern slopes of the Andes in La Paz department, Bolivia . REMARKS: Phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence datasets ( Díaz-Nieto et al., 2016a , 2016b ) suggest that Marmosops creightoni is the sister species of M. noctivagus .