Philander vossi Gardner and Ramírez-Pulido, 2020

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 : 40

Philander vossi Gardner and Ramírez-Pulido, 2020

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: USNM

58158, the holotype (by replacement of a preoccupied name; ICZN, 1999: Article 72.7), consists of the skin and skull of an adult male collected at Orizaba (18.85° N, 97.10° W; 1280 m), Veracruz state, Mexico .

SYNONYMS: pallidus J.A. Allen, 1901 (preoccupied; see Remarks).

DISTRIBUTION: Sequenced specimens suggest that Philander vossi occurs in Mexico, Belize, and El Salvador (Voss et al., 2018: fig. 3), but it seems likely to also occur in Guatemala and perhaps other Central American countries.

REMARKS: Gardner and Ramírez-Pulido (2020) proposed Philander vossi as a replacement name for the species previously known as P. pallidus , which is preoccupied by Philan- der laniger pallidus Thomas, 1899 (= Caluromys derbianus ; see above). Phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence data (Voss et al., 2018) suggest that P. vossi is the sister taxon of P. melanurus , but consistent morphological criteria for distinguishing these putative species have yet to be discovered.