Metachirus Burmeister, 1854
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https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7161565 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A487D6-FFD7-FFC5-AFBB-3F9BFC18F923 |
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Felipe |
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Metachirus Burmeister, 1854 |
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Genus Metachirus Burmeister, 1854 View in CoL
TYPE SPECIES: Didelphis nudicaudata E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803 , by subsequent designation ( Thomas, 1888a).
SYNONYMS: None.
REMARKS: See Voss and Jansa (2009) for an emended generic description. Gardner and Dagosto (2008) thought that the type species of Metachirus was Didelphis myosuros Burmeister, 1854 , but—as explained by Hershkovitz (1976) —the type species is unambiguously D. nudicaudata E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803 . Metachirus was long thought to contain only a single species, but M. myosuros was shown to be distinct from M. nudicaudatus by Voss et al. (2019), who also mentioned the possibility that specimens from the TocantinsXingu interfluve might represent a third, undescribed species.
10 Coordinates are for Rosario, which is near Tatemales according to Birney and Jones (1971).
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