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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Marmosa
(
Exulomarmosa
)
zeledoni
Goldman, 1911
TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY:
USNM 12885
, the
holotype
by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of an adult male collected at Navarro (
9.82° N
,
83.87° S
; ca.
840 m
),
Cartago province
,
Costa Rica
.
SYNONYMS: None.
DISTRIBUTION:
Marmosa zeledoni
is known from widely scattered localities, mostly in premontane or montane rainforest (to
2200 m
) but sometimes in very wet lowland forests, from north-central
Nicaragua
southward through
Costa Rica
and
Panama
to western
Colombia
and northwestern
Ecuador
(
Rossi et al., 2010
: fig. 21).
REMARKS: See
Rossi et al. (2010)
for an emended description, tabulated measurement data, and morphological comparisons with congeneric species.
Marmosa zeledoni
was long regarded as a synonym or subspecies of
M. mexicana
(e.g., by
Tate, 1933
), but these are morphologically and genetically distinct taxa that are known to occur sympatrically at several localities (
Rossi et al., 2010
;
Gutiérrez et al., 2010
).