Didelphinae Gray, 1821

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

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https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7161397

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scientific name

Didelphinae Gray, 1821
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Subfamily Didelphinae Gray, 1821 View in CoL

TYPE GENUS: Didelphis Linnaeus, 1758 .

SYNONYMS: Chironectinae Hershkovitz, 1997; Lutreolininae Hershkovitz, 1997.

REMARKS: See Voss and Jansa (2009: 100) for a morphological diagnosis. Monophyly of the nominotypical subfamily has been consistently and strongly supported by phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence datasets (e.g., Voss and Jansa, 2009; Amador and Giannini, 2016).

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