Marmosops (Sciophanes), Diaz-Nieto et al., 2016

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 : 48

Subgenus Sciophanes Díaz-Nieto et al., 2016

TYPE SPECIES: Marmosa parvidens Tate, 1931 , by original designation.

SYNONYMS: None.

REMARKS: Subgeneric monophyly is consistently and strongly supported by phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence datasets (e.g., Díaz-Nieto et al., 2016a, 2016b; Amador and Giannini, 2016). Sciophanes was revised by DíazNieto and Voss (2016), who recognized 12 species that they sorted into several informally recognized groups. One subsequently described species and another species recently recognized as valid ( Ferreira et al., 2020) can be accommodated in the same species-group arrangement (table 2).