Monodelphis (Mygalodelphys) osgoodi Doutt, 1938

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Monodelphis (Mygalodelphys) osgoodi Doutt, 1938

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: CM 5242 , the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of an adult male collected at Incachaca (17.23° S, 65.68° W; 2600 m), Cochabamba department, Bolivia .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Although specimens alleged to be Monodelphis osgoodi are known from central Peru to central Bolivia (Pine and Handley, 2008: map 43), it is not clear that any, except Bolivian material from Cochabamba department and two specimens from La Paz (all sequenced by Pavan et al., 2014: SI, table 1) are correctly identified (see Remarks).

REMARKS: No emended description of Monodelphis osgoodi that mentions all the characters now known to distinguish species in the subgenus Mygalodelphys has been published. As a result, the morphological traits that diagnose this species from its sister taxon, M. peruviana , are poorly documented. The current recognition of M. osgoodi as a valid species is largely based on DNA sequence data ( Solari, 2007, 2010; Pavan et al., 2014), an obviously unsatisfactory situation.