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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Monodelphis
(
Mygalodelphys
)
saci
Pavan et al., 2017
TYPE
MATERIAL AND
TYPE
LOCALITY:
UFPA
1422, the
holotype
by original designation, consists of the skin, skull, postcranial skeleton, and preserved tissues of an adult male collected at Bom Jardim (
5.61° S
,
57.12° W
) on the left bank of the Rio Tapajós, Pará state,
Brazil
.
SYNONYMS: None.
DISTRIBUTION:
Monodelphis saci
is known from scattered rainforest localities south of the Amazon in the Brazilian states of
Acre
,
Rondônia
,
Mato Grosso
, and
Pará
(
Pavan et al., 2017
: fig. 2).
REMARKS: For illustrations, description, measurement data, and morphological comparisons with closely related congeners, see
Pavan et al. (2017)
. This is the taxon that
Pavan et al. (2014
, 2016) called “
Monodelphis
species 2
,” and which they recovered in a clade with
M. handleyi
,
M. osgoodi
, and
M. peruviana
.