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 Monodelphis ( Mygalodelphys ) pinocchio Pavan, 2015 TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: MN 78680, the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin, skull, and postcranial skeleton of an adult male collected at the Reserva Forestal do Morro Grande ( 23.06° S , 46.92° W ), São Paulo state , Brazil . SYNONYMS: None (but see Remarks for unavailable or informal names by which this species was previously known). DISTRIBUTION: Monodelphis pinocchio occurs in montane forests from about 790 to 2400 m in southeastern Brazil , where it has been collected in the states of Espírito Santo , Rio de Janeiro , Minas Gerais , and São Paulo ( Pavan, 2015 : fig. 2). REMARKS: See Pavan (2015) for illustrations, measurements, and morphological comparisons with other species in the subgenus Mygalodelphys . This is a morphologically distinctive species that was recognized as such long before it was formally described. It was previously called “ Monodelphis macae ” (an unavailable manuscript name) by Gomes (1991) , “ Monodelphis [species E]” by Pine and Handley (2008), and “ Monodelphis species 1 ” by Pavan et al. (2014) .