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
(
Microdelphys
)
gardneri
Solari et al., 2012
TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY:
MUSM 24216
, the
holotype
by original designation, consists of the skin, skull, and fluid-preserved carcass of an adult female collected at Abra Esperanza (
11.93° S
,
71.28° W
;
2784 m
),
Pasco
department,
Peru
.
SYNONYMS: None.
DISTRIBUTION:
Monodelphis gardneri
is currently known from several localities between 2000 and
3000 m
in the
eastern Andes
of central
Peru
(
Huánuco
,
Pasco
,
Junín
, and
Cusco
departments;
Solari et al., 2012
: fig. 1)
.
REMARKS: This is the only member of the subgenus
Microdelphys
that does not occur in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern
Brazil
; for a discussion of its biogeographic significance, see Pavan et al. (2016).
Monodelphis gardneri
is the taxon that Pine and Handley (2008: 107) called “
Monodelphis
[species C].”