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
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Gracilinanus emiliae
(Thomas, 1909)
TYPE
MATERIAL AND
TYPE
LOCALITY:
BMNH
9.3.9.10, the
holotype
by original designation,
consists of the skin and skull of a subadult male collected at “Para” (= Belém:
1.45° S
,
48.48° W
), Pará state,
Brazil
.
SYNONYMS:
longicaudus
Hershkovitz, 1992
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Gracilinanus emiliae
is known from fewer than 20 localities, but these are widely scattered across cis-Andean tropical South America, mostly in Amazonian rainforest, but also in northern
Venezuela
, at the northern margin of the Cerrado, and at the western edge of the Llanos (
Brandão et al., 2014
: fig. 3).
REMARKS: See
Voss et al. (2001
,
2009b
) for emended descriptions, illustrations, measurements, and morphological comparisons with other congeners; additional illustrations, measurements, and morphological observations are in
Brandão et al. (2014)
. Phylogenetic analyses of taxon-dense multilocus datasets suggest that
Gracilinanus emiliae
is the sister species of
G. marica
, and that this pair is the sister group of a larger clade that includes all the other species in the genus (
Díaz-Nieto et al., 2016a
; Teta and Díaz-Nieto, 2019).