Marmosops (Sciophanes) juninensis ( Tate, 1931 )

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 : 50-51

Marmosops (Sciophanes) juninensis ( Tate, 1931)

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: AMNH 63864 , the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of a young adult female collected at Utcuyacu (ca. 11.20° S, 75.47° W; 1463 m), Junín department, Peru .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Marmosops juninensis occurs in premontane and montane forests (between about 1300 and 2400 m) on the eastern slopes of the Andes in central Peru (Junín and Pasco; Díaz-Nieto and Voss , 2016) .

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