Micoureus Lesson, 1842

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 : 15

Subgenus Micoureus Lesson, 1842

TYPE SPECIES: Didelphis cinerea Temminck, 1824 (= Marmosa paraguayana ; see below), by subsequent designation ( Thomas, 1888a)

SYNONYMS: None.

REMARKS: Micoureus was formerly ranked as a genus (e.g., by Gardner and Creighton, 2008a), but this clade has been consistently recovered nested within Marmosa by phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence datasets (Voss and Jansa, 2009; Voss et al., 2014; Amador and Giannini, 2016). Thirteen species are currently recognized, most of which can be sorted into one or another of several groups based on robustly supported phylogenetic relationships (table 1).