DIDELPHIDAE GRAY, 1821

PATTON, JAMES L., DA SILVA, MARIA NAZARETH F. & MALCOLM, JAY R., 2000, Mammals Of The Rio Juruá And The Evolutionary And Ecological Diversification Of Amazonia, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (244), pp. 1-306 : 44

ORDER DIDELPHIMORPHIA DIDELPHIDAE GRAY, 1821

Thirteen species of marsupials were recorded along the length of the Rio Jurua´ This number is equivalent to the known marsupial fauna of Manu National Park in southeastern Perú (Pacheco et al., 1993; Voss and Emmons, 1996). The maximum number of species found at any given site was eight (Penedo, locality 7; see discussion below and appendices A and B). This is two fewer than the number recorded sympatrically at either Manu National Park or Cusco Amazónico in southeastern Perú (Pacheco et al., 1993; Voss and Emmons, 1996; Woodman et al., 1991) Although the species list for the Juruá basin is impressive, taxa are missing that are likely present along the river. Included among these probable species are the water opossum Chironectes minimus , the arboreal opossums Caluromysiops irrupta and Glironia venusta and small murine opossums of the genus Gracilinanus (see Gardner and Creighton 1989; Hershkovitz, 1992). Patterson (1992 recorded Gracilinanus emiliae (Thomas from the central Rio Juruá at Igarapé Grande (near Eirunepe´), but these specimens were apparently misidentified and are actually juvenile Marmosa lepida (Robert S. Voss, personal commun.).