Marmosa (Micoureus) perplexa Anthony, 1922

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 : 18-19

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A487D6-FFDA-FFC9-AFFD-3A2EFEDAFD00
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Marmosa (Micoureus) perplexa Anthony, 1922
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Treatment

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: AMNH

47188, the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of a young adult female collected at Punta Santa Ana (3.83° S, 79.55° W; 1113 m), Loja province, Ecuador GoogleMaps .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Marmosa perplexa is known from the Pacific lowlands and western Andean foothills of southwestern Ecuador (El Oro, Loja) and northwestern Peru (Cajamarca, Tumbes) (Voss and Giarla, 2021: fig. 2).

REMARKS: This species has long been treated as a synonym of Marmosa phaea , which it externally resembles. However, M. perplexa and M. phaea are not sister taxa, they have highly divergent mtDNA sequences, and they differ in several details of craniodental morphology (Voss and Giarla, 2021).