An Annotated Checklist Of Recent Opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae)
Author
Voss, Robert S.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2022
2022-04-04
2022
455
1
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Marmosops
(
Marmosops
)
incanus
(Lund, 1840)
TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: No type material was designated in the original description, but
four specimens
in the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen known to have been collected by Lund are assumed to be
syntypes
. Of these, PVLund L14 and PVLund L15 consist only of skulls, whereas PVLund 223 consists only of a skin. The most anatomically complete is PVLund 224 (skin and skull), but no purpose is served by selecting a
lectotype
at this time.
SYNONYMS:
bahiensis
Tate, 1931
;
scapulatus
Burmeister, 1856.
DISTRIBUTION:
Marmosops incanus
is found primarily in the Atlantic Forest biome of
Brazil
, from the state of
Sergipe
(Calazans and Bocchiglieri, 2020) southward to
Paraná
(Mustrangi and Patton, 1997: fig. 6).
REMARKS: Mustrangi and Patton’s (1997) analysis of mtDNA sequence data remains the only phylogeographic study of this species, which includes several impressively divergent haplogroups. The same authors also illustrated and discussed morphological characters that distinguish
Marmosops incanus
from its broadly sympatric congener,
M. paulensis
. Phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence datasets either recover
M. incanus
as the sister taxon to all other members of the nominotypical subgenus (
Díaz-Nieto et al., 2016a
,
2016b
) or as the sister taxon of
M. paulensis
(see Amador and Giannini. 2016).