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 https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-american-museum-of-natural-history/volume-455/issue-1/0003-0090.455.1.1/An-Annotated-Checklist-of-Recent-Opossums-Mammalia-Didelphidae/10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1.full journal article 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1 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].”