Metachirus nudicaudatus (Desmarest, 1817)

Alfred L. Gardner, 1993, Order Didelphimorphia, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 15-23 : 20

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scientific name	Metachirus nudicaudatus (Desmarest, 1817)
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Metachirus nudicaudatus (Desmarest, 1817) View in CoL . Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 9:424.

TYPE LOCALITY: French Guiana, "Cayenne."

DISTRIBUTION: Nicaragua to Paraguay and N Argentina.

SYNONYMS: antioquiae]. A. Allen, 1916; bolivianus J. A. Allen, 1901; colombianus J. A. Allen, 1900; dentaneus Goldman, 1912; inbutus Thomas, 1923; infuscus Thomas, 1923; modestus Thomas, 1923; personatus Miranda-Ribeiro, 1936; phaeurus Thomas, 1901; tschudii J. A. Allen, 1900.

COMMENTS: M. nudicaudatus is usually cited from É. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire's (1803) catalog of the mammals in the Paris Museum, but that work was not actually published; see Appendix I.