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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10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1
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Marmosops
(
Sciophanes
)
handleyi
(Pine, 1981)
TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY:
FMNH 69838
, the
holotype
by original designation, consists of the skin, skull, and postcranial skeleton of an adult female collected
9 km
S
Valdivia
(
7.10° N
,
75.43° W
;
1400 m
),
Antioquia department
,
Colombia
.
SYNONYMS: None.
DISTRIBUTION:
Marmosops handleyi
is currently known only from the northern terminus of the Cordillera Central (central Andes) of
Colombia
at elevations from about
1400 to 1950 m
(Díaz-Nieto and Voss, 2016: fig. 20).
REMARKS: For illustrations, an emended description, and measurement data, see DíazNieto et al. (2011). Díaz-Nieto and Voss (2016) provided morphological comparisons with closely related congeners and assigned
Marmosops handleyi
to the Fuscatus Group based on phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequence data previously reported by
Díaz-Nieto et al. (2016b)
.