Marmosops (Marmosops) creightoni Voss et al., 2004

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 : 46

Marmosops (Marmosops) creightoni Voss et al., 2004

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: CBF 6552 , the holotype by original designation, consists of the fluid-preserved body and extracted skull of an adult male collected at the Saynani electrical generating station (ca. 16.12° S, 68.08° W; 2500 m) in the valley of the Río Zongo , La Paz department, Bolivia .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Marmosops creightoni is known to occur only in montane forests above 2000 m on the eastern slopes of the Andes in La Paz department, Bolivia.

REMARKS: Phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence datasets ( Díaz-Nieto et al., 2016a, 2016b) suggest that Marmosops creightoni is the sister species of M. noctivagus .