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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7161657

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scientific name

Marmosops (Sciophanes) handleyi (Pine, 1981)
status

 

Marmosops (Sciophanes) handleyi (Pine, 1981) View in CoL

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: FMNH 69838 View Materials , 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 GoogleMaps .

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Didelphimorphia

Family

Didelphidae

Genus

Marmosops

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