Thylamys (Xerodelphys) velutinus (Wagner, 1842)

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 : 56-57

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7161691
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scientific name	Thylamys (Xerodelphys) velutinus
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Thylamys (Xerodelphys) velutinus View in CoL

(Wagner, 1842)

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: NMW B-2621, the holotype by monotypy, consists of the skin and skull of an adult male collected at ‘‘Ypanema’’ (= Ipanema: 23.43° S, 47.60° W; 950 m), São Paulo state, Brazil GoogleMaps .

SYNONYMS: pimelurus Reinhardt, 1851.

DISTRIBUTION: Thylamys velutinus is only known from a few localities in the Cerrado biome of central and southeastern Brazil (Carmignotto and Monfort, 2006: fig. 7).

REMARKS: An emended description of this species accompanied by illustrations, morphometric data, and taxonomic comparisons was provided by Carmignotto and Monfort (2006). Giarla et al. (2010) also described this species and analyzed its phylogenetic relationships.