Monodelphis Burnett, 1830

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 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7161495
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scientific name	Monodelphis Burnett, 1830
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Subgenus Monodelphis Burnett, 1830 View in CoL

TYPE SPECIES: As for the genus.

SYNONYMS: As for the genus.

REMARKS: See Pavan and Voss (2016) for a morphological diagnosis of this taxon. Subgeneric monophyly is strongly supported by phylogenetic analyses of the multilocus sequence datasets reported by Pavan et al. (2014, 2016) and Vilela et al. (2015). Eight species are currently recognized.

References

Pavan, S. E., S. A. Jansa, and R. S. Voss. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of short-tailed opossums (Didelphidae: Monodelphis): taxonomic implications and tests of evolutionary hypotheses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79: 199 - 214.

Vilela, J. F., J. A. de Oliveira, and C. A. M. Russo. 2015. The diversification of the genus Monodelphis and the chronology of Didelphidae (Didelphimorphia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174: 414 - 427.