Monodelphis (Mygalodelphys) saci Pavan et al., 2017

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Monodelphis (Mygalodelphys) saci Pavan et al., 2017

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: UFPA

1422, the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin, skull, postcranial skeleton, and preserved tissues of an adult male collected at Bom Jardim (5.61° S, 57.12° W) on the left bank of the Rio Tapajós, Pará state, Brazil.

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Monodelphis saci is known from scattered rainforest localities south of the Amazon in the Brazilian states of Acre, Rondônia, Mato Grosso, and Pará ( Pavan et al., 2017: fig. 2).

REMARKS: For illustrations, description, measurement data, and morphological comparisons with closely related congeners, see Pavan et al. (2017). This is the taxon that Pavan et al. (2014, 2016) called “ Monodelphis species 2 ,” and which they recovered in a clade with M. handleyi , M. osgoodi , and M. peruviana .