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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0003-0090
Monodelphis
(
Mygalodelphys
)
ronaldi
Solari, 2004
TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY:
MUSM 17027
, the
holotype
by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of an old adult male collected at Pakitza (
11.93° S
,
71.28° W
;
356 m
) on the left bank of the
Río Manu
,
Madre de Dios
department,
Peru
.
SYNONYMS: None.
DISTRIBUTION:
Monodelphis ronaldi
is currently known from only two localities in the Amazonian lowlands of eastern
Peru
(
Madre de Dios
,
Ucayali
) and one locality in western
Brazil
(Amazonas) (Ruelas and Pacheco, 2022).
REMARKS: For an emended description, illustrations, tabulated measurement data, and comparisons with closely related congeners see Ruelas and Pacheco (2022). The same authors reported phylogenetic analyses of mtDNA sequence data that convincingly resolved
Monodelphis ronaldi
as the sister taxon of
M. handleyi
, and they reidentified as
M. ronaldi
the western Brazilian specimen that
Bezerra et al. (2019)
had previously reported as
M. handleyi
.