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
Subgenus
Xerodelphys
Giarla et al., 2010
TYPE
SPECIES:
Thylamys karimii
(Petter, 1968)
, by original designation.
SYNONYMS: None.
REMARKS: Although the monophyly of
Xerodelphys
has been consistently supported by phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence datasets (e.g.,
Giarla et al., 2010
; Díaz et al., 2016a; Amador and Giannini, 2016), nodal support for this clade is seldom strong. However, compelling evidence for subgeneric monophyly is provided by the unusual caudal and manual morphologies illustrated by Carmignotto and Monfort (2006). Two species are currently recognized as valid.