Marmosops (Sciophanes) ojastii García et al., 2014

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 : 51

Marmosops (Sciophanes) ojastii García et al., 2014

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: EBRG 27474 , the holotype by original designation, consists of the fluid-preserved body and extracted skull of an adult male collected on Pico Guacamaya (10.35° N, 67.67° W; 1850 m), Parque Nacional Henri Pittier , Aragua state, Venezuela .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Marmosops ojastii occurs in the Cordillera de la Costa of northern Venezuela and in the Cordillera de Mérida in western Venezuela ( García et al., 2014: fig. 1).

REMARKS: For illustrations, descriptions, measurement data, and morphological comparisons with closely related congeners, see García et al. (2014) and Díaz-Nieto and Voss (2016). The latter authors assigned Marmosops ojastii to the Bishopi Group based on phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequence data previously reported by DíazNieto et al. (2016b). Those analyses additionally suggested that, within the Bishopi Group, M. ojastii is the sister species of a clade that includes M. chucha and M. magdalenae .