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
(
Monodelphis
)
arlindoi
Pavan et al., 2012
TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY:
MPEG 38052
, the
holotype
by original designation, consists of the skin, skull, and preserved tissues of an adult male collected at Platô Grieg (
1.83° S
,
56.42° W
;
160 m
),
43 km
SW Porto Trombetas
,
Pará
state,
Brazil
.
SYNONYMS: None.
DISTRIBUTION:
Monodelphis arlindoi
occurs in lowland rainforest in central and southern
Guyana
and
Brazil
; in
Brazil
, it occurs north of the Amazon in southeastern
Roraima
, eastern Amazonas, and northern Pará (
Pavan et al., 2012
: fig. 6)
REMARKS:
Monodelphis arlindoi
is one of three species currently recognized within what was once considered to be
M. brevicaudata
(e.g., by
Voss et al., 2001
; Pine and Handley, 2008).