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
0003-0090
Marmosa
(
Micoureus
)
jansae
Voss and Giarla, 2021
TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY:
ROM
118880, the
holotype
by original designation, consists of the skin, skull, postcranial skeleton, and frozen tissues of an adult male collected
42 km
south and
1 km
east of Pompeya Sur (
0.68° S
,
76.47° W
), Parque Nacional Yasuní,
Orellana province
,
Ecuador
.
SYNONYMS: None.
DISTRIBUTION:
Marmosa jansae
is currently known from the Amazonian lowlands of southeastern
Colombia
(
Putumayo
), eastern
Ecuador
(
Orellana
,
Pastaza
), and northeastern
Peru
(
Loreto
, north of the Amazon) (Voss and Giarla, 2021: fig. 2).
REMARKS: Specimens of
Marmosa jansae
were identified by
Tate (1933)
as
M. germana germana
or as
M. g.
rutteri
, and subsequently collected specimens have often been identified as
M. regina
(e.g., by Hice and Velazco, 2012). Voss and Giarla (2021) provided a morphological description, measurement data, taxonomic comparisons, and other relevant information about this species.