Marmosa (Exulomarmosa) zeledoni Goldman, 1911

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Marmosa (Exulomarmosa) zeledoni Goldman, 1911

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: USNM 12885 , the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of an adult male collected at Navarro (9.82° N, 83.87° S; ca. 840 m), Cartago province, Costa Rica .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Marmosa zeledoni is known from widely scattered localities, mostly in premontane or montane rainforest (to 2200 m) but sometimes in very wet lowland forests, from north-central Nicaragua southward through Costa Rica and Panama to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador ( Rossi et al., 2010: fig. 21).

REMARKS: See Rossi et al. (2010) for an emended description, tabulated measurement data, and morphological comparisons with congeneric species. Marmosa zeledoni was long regarded as a synonym or subspecies of M. mexicana (e.g., by Tate, 1933), but these are morphologically and genetically distinct taxa that are known to occur sympatrically at several localities ( Rossi et al., 2010; Gutiérrez et al., 2010).