Marmosa (Micoureus) parda Tate, 1931

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 : 18

Marmosa (Micoureus) parda Tate, 1931

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: FMNH 24140 , the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of an adult male collected at Huachipa (ca. 9.50° S, 75.87° W; 855–1405 m), Huánuco department, Peru .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Marmosa parda is known from just a few localities on the cloud-forested eastern Andean slopes of central Peru.

REMARKS: Marmosa parda was long treated as a subspecies or synonym of Marmosa germana or M. regina , but it was recently validated and assigned to the Rapposa Group by Voss et al. (2020), who provided an emended morphological description, measurement data, and relevant taxonomic comparisons.