Marmosops (Sciophanes) handleyi (Pine, 1981)

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 : 50

Marmosops (Sciophanes) handleyi (Pine, 1981)

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: FMNH 69838 , the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin, skull, and postcranial skeleton of an adult female collected 9 km S Valdivia (7.10° N, 75.43° W; 1400 m), Antioquia department, Colombia .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Marmosops handleyi is currently known only from the northern terminus of the Cordillera Central (central Andes) of Colombia at elevations from about 1400 to 1950 m (Díaz-Nieto and Voss, 2016: fig. 20).

REMARKS: For illustrations, an emended description, and measurement data, see DíazNieto et al. (2011). Díaz-Nieto and Voss (2016) provided morphological comparisons with closely related congeners and assigned Marmosops handleyi to the Fuscatus Group based on phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequence data previously reported by Díaz-Nieto et al. (2016b).