Monodelphis Burnett, 1830

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 : 20-21

Genus Monodelphis Burnett, 1830

TYPE SPECIES: Didelphis brachyuros Schreber, 1777 (= Monodelphis brevicaudata ; see below), by subsequent designation ( Matschie, 1916).

SYNONYMS: Hemiurus Gervais, 1855 (preoccupied); Peramys Lesson, 1842 .

REMARKS: See Pavan and Voss (2016) for an emended morphological description of this highly distinctive genus. Generic monophyly is consistently supported by model-based phylogenetic

6 The latter is EBD 11, collected by J. Castroviejo on 4 April 1973 at “El Platanal, alto Orinoco.” Many localities in Venezuela are known as “El Platanal,” but this one appears to be a village on the upper Orinoco upstream from the mouth of the Río Mavaca where EBD researchers worked in the early 1970s (R. Rodríguez, personal commun.). The USBGN gazetteer for Venezuela provides coordinates (2.42° N, 64.92° W) for a populated place called “Platanal” that fits this description.

analyses of multilocus sequence datasets (e.g., Voss and Jansa, 2003, 2009; Pavan et al., 2014; Vilela et al., 2015; Amador and Giannini, 2016). Five subgenera are currently recognized following Pavan and Voss (2016), who discussed synonymies and provided morphological diagnoses.