Marmosa (Eomarmosa) rubra Tate, 1931

Voss, Robert S., 2022, An Annotated Checklist Of Recent Opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2022 (455), pp. 1-77 : 10-11

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7161407
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scientific name	Marmosa (Eomarmosa) rubra Tate, 1931
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TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: AMNH 71973, the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of an adult female collected at the mouth of the Río Curaray (ca. 2.37° S, 74.08° W; ca. 200 m), Loreto, Peru. Tate (1931, 1933) thought that the type was collected in Ecuador, but “Boca Río Curaray” (as this locality was originally recorded by the collectors) is well within the internationally recognized borders of Peru ( Wiley, 2010).

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Marmosa rubra is known from just a few localities in the Amazonian lowlands of southeastern Colombia (Putumayo), eastern Ecuador (Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, and Sucumbios), and eastern Peru (Loreto, and Madre de Dios) ( Rossi et al., 2010: fig. 30). Additional Peruvian records were summarized by Pacheco et al. (2020).

REMARKS: See Rossi et al. (2010) for an emended morphological description, illustrations, measurement data, and comparisons with congeneric species.

References

Pacheco, V., et al. [six additional coauthors]. 2020. Diversidad y distribucion de los mamiferos del Peru: Didelphimorphia, Paucituberculata, Sirenia, Cingulata, Pilosa, Primates, Lagomorpha, Eulipotyphla, Carnivora, Perissodactyla, y Artiodactyla. Revista Peruana de Biologia 27: 289 - 328.

Rossi, R. V., R. S. Voss, and D. P. Lunde. 2010. A revision of the didelphid marsupial genus Marmosa. Part 1. The species in Tate's Mexicana and Mitis sections and other closely related forms. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 334: 1 - 83.

Tate, G. H. H. 1931. Brief diagnoses of twenty-six apparently new forms of Marmosa (Marsupialia) from South America. American Museum Novitates 493: 1 - 14.

Tate, G. H. H. 1933. A systematic revision of the marsupial genus Marmosa with a discussion of the adaptive radiation of the murine opossums (Marmosa). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 66 (1): 1 - 250 + 26 pls.

Wiley, R. H. 2010. Alfonso Olalla and his family: the ornithological exploration of Amazonian Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 343: 1 - 68.