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
)
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)
.