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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFCEFF91EDB5FA07295FF991" box="[903,1140,1513,1536]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Marmosops incanus</emphasis>
(
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by original designation.
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DIAGNOSIS: Species of
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can be distinguished from other small didelphid marsupials by the following combination of character states: eye surrounded by mask of blackish fur contrasting in color with paler fur of crown and cheeks; dorsal pelage uniformly colored, unpatterned; manus mesaxonic (digit III longer than adjacent digits II and IV); manual claws small, not exceeding fleshy apical pads in length; central palmar surface of manus smooth (not densely tuberculate); digit IV of pes longer than adjacent digit III; caudal scales in spiral series; middle hair of each caudal­scale triplet petiolate (narrower basally than at midlength), thicker, and usually more heavily pigmented than lateral hairs; tail longer than the combined length of head and body, not incrassate; ventral surface of tail­tip modified for prehension; premaxillary rostral process usually well developed; postorbital processes usually absent; petrosal usually exposed on lateral surface of braincase through fenestra between squamosal and parietal bones; maxillary fenestrae absent; posterolateral palatal foramina small, not extending lingual to M4 protocones; maxillary and alisphenoid not in contact on floor of orbit; extracranial course of mandibular nerve (V
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) enclosed by anteromedial strut of alisphenoid bulla (secondary foramen ovale present); fenestra cochleae exposed laterally (not enclosed in a bony sinus); I2I5 with approximately symmetrical rhomboidal crowns increasing in breadth from front to back; P2 and P3 subequal in height; molar dentition highly carnassialized; centrocrista strongly V­shaped, its apex high above trigon basin; lower canine (c1) procumbent and premolariform (always with a flattened, bladelike apex and usually with a small posterior accessory cusp); p2 taller than p3; dp3 fully molariform; m3 hypoconid labially salient; entoconid large and well developed on m1m3.
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Fig. 2. Dorsal and ventral views of the skull, and occlusal view of the maxillary dentition of
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, showing the anatomical limits of craniodental measurements defined in the text.
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COMPARISONS WITH
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: Species of
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have long been confused with
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFCCFF93EE4EFC522DC0FC42" box="[124,235,956,979]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Marmosa</emphasis>
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, which they superficially resemble in size and external appearance, but these taxa are only distantly related (
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;
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) and can readily be distinguished by qualitative integumental and craniodental characters (
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). In the field, two external characters are useful for generic identification. Whereas the manus of
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is mesaxonic, with digit (d) III distinctly longer than the adjacent digits (dII and dIV; fig. 3A), the manus of
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is paraxonic, with dIII and dIV subequal in length (fig. 3B). Easily determined from live specimens (or properly fluid­preserved material) with elastic phalangeal joints that can be manipulated to align and straighten adjacent digits for relative length comparisons, this character is often hard to score from dried skins with hard, bent, twisted, or otherwise distorted fingers (see
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: character 10). A second distinguishing external trait is the morphology of the caudal pelage, of which the central hair in each caudal­scale triplet is petiolate (narrower basally than at mid­length), thicker, and usually more darkly pigmented than the lateral hairs in
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; by contrast, the three hairs of each caudal­scale triplet are subequal in thickness and similarly shaped and pigmented in
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(
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: character 27).
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In dorsal cranial comparisons, these taxa are distinguished by the usual absence of distinct postorbital processes of the frontal bones in
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(fig. 4B) versus the usual presence of distinct postorbital processes in adults of most species of
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(fig. 4A). In lateral cranial view, the petrosal capsule that encloses the paraflocculus and semicircular canals (= pars canalicularis or pars mastoideus) is usually exposed through a fenestra between the squamosal and parietal bones in
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(fig. 5A), but there is no such lateral petrosal exposure in
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(fig. 5B). In ventral cranial view,
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFCCFF93EDBBFD5A293BFD5A" box="[905,1040,692,715]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Marmosops</emphasis>
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is distinguished by the invariant presence of a secondary foramen ovale (fig. 6B), which is just as consistently absent in
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(fig. 6A).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFCCFF93ECEBFCC72E49FCD1" box="[729,866,809,832]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Marmosops</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFCCFF93ED9BFCC72933FCD1" box="[937,1048,809,832]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Marmosa</emphasis>
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are similar in most dental traits, but the morphology of the deciduous lower third premolar (dp3) appears to provide a consistent difference. In all examined juvenile specimens of
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFCCFF93EA5FFC712FDBFC42" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Marmosops</emphasis>
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(fig. 7, upper panel) this tooth is fully molariform because the trigonid includes a distinct paraconid, protoconid, and metaconid. By contrast, the dp3 of juvenile
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFCCFF93EAA3FBFA2FD2FBD9" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Marmosa</emphasis>
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(fig. 7, lower panel) is not fully molariform because the bicuspid trigonid lacks a distinct metaconid.
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COMPARISONS WITH
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: Museum specimens of
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFCCFF93ED6EFB492ECEFB2F" box="[860,997,1191,1214]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Marmosops</emphasis>
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are sometimes misidentified as
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFCCFF93ED66FB2A2EC6FB4A" box="[852,1005,1220,1243]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Gracilinanus</emphasis>
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, apparently the result of using inaccurate published keys.
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Despite such confusion, the two genera can be distinguished unambiguously by several external morphological differences (
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). Unlike
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, which has a mesaxonic manus with dIII longer than the other digits,
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(like
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFCCFF93EDABFA7F2923FA39" box="[921,1032,1425,1448]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Marmosa</emphasis>
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) has a paraxonic manus with dIII and dIV subequal in length. Also, whereas
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has spirally arranged caudal scales, the caudal scales of
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFCCFF93EC8EF9E92E7EF98F" box="[700,853,1543,1566]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Gracilinanus</emphasis>
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are arranged in predominantly annular series (
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: character 23). Lastly, the central hair of each caudal­scale triplet is petiolate, thicker, and usually more heavily pigmented than the lateral hairs in
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, whereas the central hair is not conspicuously differentiated from the lateral hairs in
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CEF18FB822CE8FB12" box="[298,451,1132,1155]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Gracilinanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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: character 27).
</paragraph>
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Among other characters erroneously used in relevant key couplets by
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and
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, presence/absence of gular glands, plantar pad morphology, nasal proportions, and presence/absence of postorbital processes do not reliably distinguish species of
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFCCFF93ECE5F9542E6EF95C" box="[727,837,1722,1741]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Marmosops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFCCFF93EDB3F9542ED0F95C" box="[897,1019,1722,1741]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Gracilinanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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TABLE 2
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Diagnostic Morphological Comparisons among
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,
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,
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</emphasis>
, and
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFCDFF92EB75FDEC289BFD86" bold="true" box="[1351,1456,514,535]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Thylamys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
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TABLE 2
<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC2FF9DED13FE142EB4FD9E" box="[801,927,506,527]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">(Continued)</emphasis>
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Fig. 3. Dorsal views of right forefeet of
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(
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MVZ 197629) and
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CEA55FD1B2DF4FCB4" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Marmosa robinsoni</emphasis>
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(
<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CEEC0FCE12C21FCB5" bold="true" box="[242,266,783,804]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">B,</emphasis>
AMNH 259983) illustrating generic differences in digital proportions. Species of
<taxonomicName id="E9B78C8AFFC3FF9CEAA7FCFE2DE2FCAE" authorityName="Matschie" authorityYear="1916" class="Mammalia" family="Didelphidae" genus="Marmosops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Didelphimorphia" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CEAA7FCFE2DE2FCAE" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Marmosops</emphasis>
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have mesaxonic forefeet in which digit III is longer than all of the other manual digits and digit V is short (about equal in length to digit I). By contrast, species of
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CED6BFCAB2E96FCCB" box="[857,957,837,858]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Marmosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(and
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CEDCCFCAB29A3FCCB" box="[1022,1160,837,858]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Gracilinanus</emphasis>
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) have paraxonic forefeet in which digits III and IV are subequal and digit V is long.
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Cranially,
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CEF29FB492C8FFB2F" box="[283,420,1191,1214]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Marmosops</emphasis>
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consistently lacks maxillary fenestrae, palatal openings that are consistently present in
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CEFBFFB0F2F0DFB69" box="[397,550,1249,1272]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Gracilinanus</emphasis>
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on each side of the maxillopalatine openings near the M1/M2 commissure (fig. 8). The morphology of the deciduous lower premolar (dp3) might also distinguish these taxa, but we have examined so few juvenile
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CEFC0FA9A2FA0FA1A" box="[498,651,1396,1419]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Gracilinanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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of
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and one
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CEC0BFA7F2D84FA57" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">G. emiliae</emphasis>
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, all with incomplete trigonids) that the diagnostic value of this trait is unclear.
</paragraph>
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COMPARISONS WITH
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CEFBBFA072CDCFA6E" box="[393,503,1513,1536]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">THYLAMYS</emphasis>
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: Specimens of
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CEEADF9E92C03F98F" box="[159,296,1543,1566]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Marmosops</emphasis>
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have occasionally been misidentified as
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CEF22F9CA2C54F9AA" box="[272,383,1572,1595]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Thylamys</emphasis>
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despite the large number of consistent differences that distinguish these very dissimilar taxa. Whereas the dorsal body pelage of
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CEF57F9922CC5F902" box="[357,494,1660,1683]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Marmosops</emphasis>
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is uniformly colored and unpatterned, the middorsum of
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC3FF9CEE49F9592DC1F95F" box="[123,234,1719,1742]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Thylamys</emphasis>
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is distinctly darker than the flanks, with a more­or­less sharp line of transition between the two colors on either side (
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: character 7). Additional external differences (
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) include the morphology of the central palmar surface of the manus (
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: character 11), the occurrence of lateral carpal tubercles (
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: character 12), occurrence of plantar pelage on the tarsus (
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: character 16), caudal hair morphology (
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: character 27), and caudal incrassation (
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: character 28). Craniodental differences between these genera are likewise numerous, including the presence/absence of a rostral premaxillary process (
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: character 29), shape of the nasal bones (
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: character 33), size and extent of the posterolateral palatal foramina (
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: character 41), lateral exposure of the fenestra cochleae (
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: character 47), and upper premolar proportions (
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: character 55).
</paragraph>
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PHYLOGENETIC STATUS AND RELATIONSHIPS: Although distinguished from certain other marmosines by a relatively small number of morphological characters,
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FEFE4FC8A2F74FCEA" box="[470,607,868,891]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Marmosops</emphasis>
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appears to be a natural group based on recent phylogenetic analyses in which generic monophyly was tested rather than assumed (
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;
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). The most taxonomically complete analysis to date (
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) included only five species of
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FEFFEFBDF2F7EFBD9" box="[460,597,1073,1096]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Marmosops</emphasis>
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, but among these were members of the diminutive
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FEE86FB822C79FB12" box="[180,338,1132,1155]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">M. parvidens</emphasis>
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complex as well as large Amazonian and southeastern Brazilian forms; generic monophyly was supported in separate parsimony analyses of both nonmolecular (morphological + karyotypic) characters and sequences from exon 1 of the nuclear gene encoding the Interphotoreceptor Retinoid Binding Protein (IRBP), in a likelihood analysis of the IRBP data, and in a parsimony analysis of a combined­data (nonmolecular + IRBP) supermatrix. The only discrepant result concerning generic monophyly,
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report that
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FEE4EFA072C4CF991" box="[124,359,1513,1536]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Gracilinanus agilis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FEF80FA072D85F98F" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Marmosops dorothea</emphasis>
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are almost indistinguishable by thermal elution of scnDNA heteroduplexes, is now known to be an artifact of specimen misidentification (see
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).
</paragraph>
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Fig. 4. Dorsal views of the interorbital region in
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(
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AMNH 267368),
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(
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AMNH 262402), and
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(
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MVZ 197439) illustrating generic differences in the development of postorbital processes. Distinct postorbital processes of the frontals (
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) are normally present in fully adult specimens of most
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species
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, but they are usually absent in
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and
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(indistinct processes are sometimes developed in old adults). Supraorbital beads (
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), consisting of upturned dorsally­grooved ridges, are present in some but not all species of
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. Scale bars equal 5 mm.
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Several phylogenetic analyses of molecular data (e.g.,
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;
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;
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) suggest that
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FED1AFC8A2E9AFCEA" box="[808,945,868,891]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Marmosops</emphasis>
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belongs to a didelphine clade that also includes
<taxonomicName id="E9B78C8AFFC0FF9FEDDFFC6F29ADFC09" authorityName="Gardner &amp; Creighton" authorityYear="1989" box="[1005,1158,897,920]" class="Mammalia" family="Didelphidae" genus="Gracilinanus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Didelphimorphia" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FEDDFFC6F29ADFC09" box="[1005,1158,897,920]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Gracilinanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FEAA9FC6F2E00FC27" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Lestodelphys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FED48FC712EC2FC27" box="[890,1001,927,950]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Thylamys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The recently described genus
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FED51FC522923FC42" box="[867,1032,956,979]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Chacodelphys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
may also belong to this group (
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). Although
<bibRefCitation id="4A268AF8FFC0FF9FEC8EFC182EB4FB9C" author="Patton, J. L. &amp; S. F. dos Reis &amp; M. N. F. da Silva" box="[700,927,1014,1037]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" pagination="3 - 29" refId="ref17085" refString="Patton, J. L., S. F. dos Reis, and M. N. F. da Silva. 1996. Relationships among didelphid marsupials based on sequence variation in the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 3: 3 - 29." type="journal article" year="1996">Patton et al. (1996)</bibRefCitation>
recovered
<taxonomicName id="E9B78C8AFFC0FF9FEA11FC192987FB9F" authorityName="Matschie" authorityYear="1916" box="[1059,1196,1015,1038]" class="Mammalia" family="Didelphidae" genus="Marmosops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Didelphimorphia" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FEA11FC192987FB9F" box="[1059,1196,1015,1038]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Marmosops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as the sister taxon of
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FEDF3FBFA296AFBBA" box="[961,1089,1044,1067]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Caluromys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the cytochrome­
<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FED2FFBDF2E07FBD9" box="[797,812,1073,1096]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">b</emphasis>
sequences they analyzed appear to be substitution­saturated at this level of taxonomic comparison (
<bibRefCitation id="4A268AF8FFC0FF9FED8EFB8229E2FB12" author="Jansa, S. A. &amp; R. S. Voss" box="[956,1225,1132,1155]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" pagination="43 - 77" refId="ref16263" refString="Jansa, S. A., and R. S. Voss. 2000. Phylogenetic studies on didelphid marsupials I. Introduction and preliminary results from nuclear IRBP gene sequences. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 7: 43 - 77." type="journal article" year="2000">Jansa and Voss, 2000</bibRefCitation>
: fig. 12), and the relationship in question (
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FECF4FB492E64FB2F" box="[710,847,1191,1214]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Marmosops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
+
<taxonomicName id="E9B78C8AFFC0FF9FED4FFB492ED6FB2F" authorityName="J. A. Allen" authorityYear="1900" box="[893,1021,1191,1214]" class="Mammalia" family="Didelphidae" genus="Caluromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Didelphimorphia" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FED4FFB492ED6FB2F" box="[893,1021,1191,1214]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Caluromys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) had only trivial bootstrap support in their parsimony results.
<bibRefCitation id="4A268AF8FFC0FF9FEC8EFB0F293EFB69" author="Palma, R. E. &amp; A. E. Spotorno" box="[700,1045,1249,1272]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" pagination="525 - 535" refId="ref16963" refString="Palma, R. E., and A. E. Spotorno. 1999. Molecular systematics of marsupials based on the rRNA 12 S mitochondrial gene: the phylogeny of Didelphimorphia and of the living fossil microbiotheriid Dromiciops gliroides. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 13: 525 - 535." type="journal article" year="1999">Palma and Spotornos (1999)</bibRefCitation>
report of a sister­group relationship between
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FEA71FB1129E7FA87" box="[1091,1228,1279,1302]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Marmosops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="1CC32B1BFFC0FF9FECCAFAF22E57FAA2" box="[760,892,1308,1331]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Metachirus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(supported by very large bootstrap values in their neighbor­joining and parsimony trees) is an unexplained anomaly that is not consistent with any other analytic results or character data of which we are aware.
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