Didelphis aurita Wied-Neuwied, 1826

Alfred L. Gardner, 1993, Order Didelphimorphia, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 15-23 : 16

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scientific name	Didelphis aurita Wied-Neuwied, 1826
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Didelphis aurita Wied-Neuwied, 1826 View in CoL . Beitr. Naturgesch. Brasil., 2:395.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Bahia, "Villa Viçosa am Flusse Paruhype."

DISTRIBUTION: E Brazil, SE Paraguay, and NE Argentina.

SYNONYMS: azarae Temminck, 1824 ; brasiliensis Liais, 1872 (part); koseritzi Ihering, 1892; longipilis Miranda-Ribeiro, 1935; melanoidis Miranda-Ribeiro, 1935.

COMMENTS: Previously considered a disjunct population of D. marsupialis (see Cerqueira, 1985). The senior synonym is D. azarae Temminck, 1824 (see Hershkovitz, 1969); however, the name had been misapplied to D. albiventris for over 160 years.