Philander nigratus (Thomas, 1923)

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 : 39

Philander nigratus (Thomas, 1923)

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: BMNH 0.7.7.62, the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of an old adult female collected at Utcuyacu (11.20° S, 75.47° W; 1600 m), Junín department, Peru .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Philander nigratus is currently known from just six localities in the foothills of the eastern Andes (between 1000 and 1600 m) in the Peruvian departments of Ayacucho and Junín (Voss and Giarla, 2020b).

REMARKS: Philander nigratus has been variously treated as a subspecies or synonym of P. andersoni , P. canus , and P. opossum , but it is genetically and morphologically distinct from these and other congeneric forms. A morphological description, measurement data, taxonomic comparisons, and analyses of mtDNA sequence data were provided by Voss and Giarla (2020b).