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
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
.