Monodelphis (Monodelphiops) unistriata (Wagner, 1842)

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 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7161491
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scientific name	Monodelphis (Monodelphiops) unistriata
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Monodelphis (Monodelphiops) unistriata View in CoL

(Wagner, 1842)

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: NMW B-1063, the holotype by monotypy, consists only of the skin of a male specimen collected at “Ytarare” (= Itararé, at 24.12° S, 49.33° W; ca. 740 m), São Paulo state, Brazil GoogleMaps .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Monodelphis unistriata is known from just two localities, one in southeastern Brazil (the type locality; see above) and another in northeastern Argentina (possibly Misones province ; Pine et al., 2013) .

REMARKS: Alternative interpretations of the phylogenetic relationships of Monodelphis unistriata were discussed by Pine et al. (2013) and Pavan and Voss (2016). A third interpretation of the scant data at hand is that the two specimens currently identified as M. unistriata are nothing more than rare coat-color variants of M. dimidiata . Molecular sequence data, if any can be obtained from these specimens, could help resolve the status of this problematic taxon.