Cryptonanus agricolai (Moojen, 1943)

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 : 41

Cryptonanus agricolai (Moojen, 1943)

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: MN 1495 , the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of an adult male collected at Crato (7.23° S, 39.38° W; 422 m), Ceará state, Brazil .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Cryptonanus agricolai occurs in open habitats (including agricultural areas in formerly forested biomes) in northeastern, central, and southeastern Brazil ( Fegies et al. (2021: fig. 1).

REMARKS: For an emended description see Voss et al. (2005), who also tabulated measurement data from eight referred specimens. Although subsequent phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence data suggest that specimens referrable to Cryptonanus agricolai belong to three allopatric phylogroups that may have diverged in the Middle Pleistocene ( Fegies et al., 2021), none of these putative species has yet been characterized morphologically.