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 : 23

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7161495

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A487D6-FFDF-FFCD-AFA0-3C92FC9AFDD4

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scientific name

Monodelphis Burnett, 1830
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Subgenus Monodelphis Burnett, 1830 View in CoL

TYPE SPECIES: As for the genus.

SYNONYMS: As for the genus.

REMARKS: See Pavan and Voss (2016) for a morphological diagnosis of this taxon. Subgeneric monophyly is strongly supported by phylogenetic analyses of the multilocus sequence datasets reported by Pavan et al. (2014, 2016) and Vilela et al. (2015). Eight species are currently recognized.

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