Marmosops (Marmosops) ocellatus ( Tate, 1931 )

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 : 47

Marmosops (Marmosops) ocellatus ( Tate, 1931)

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: BMNH 26.1 .5.25, the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of an old adult male collected at Buenavista (17.45° S, 63.67° W; ca. 475 m), Santa Cruz department, Bolivia .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Marmosops ocellatus is known from eastern Bolivia (Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz) and southwestern Brazil (Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso del Sur) ( Semedo et al., 2013: fig. 1).

REMARKS: This species was formerly treated as a synonym of Marmosops dorothea (now recognized as a synonym of M. noctivagus ; see above), but it was revalidated and redescribed by Voss et al. (2004a); illustrations and tabulated morphometric data are in Semedo et al. (2013). Phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence data reported by Díaz-Nieto et al. (2016b) recovered Marmosops ocellatus as a member of a strongly supported clade with two unnamed taxa, one of which (“Gálvez”) was subsequently described as M. soinii by Voss et al. (2019).