Didelphis sp.

Hidalgo-Mihart, Mircea G., Contreras-Moreno, Fernando M., Jesús-de la Cruz, Alejandro, Juárez-López, Rugieri, Bravata de la Cruz, Yaribeth, Pérez-Solano, Luz A., Hernández-Lara, Carolina, Friedeberg, Diana, Thornton, Dan & Koller-González, Juan M., 2017, Inventory of medium-sized and large mammals in the wetlands of Laguna de Terminos and Pantanos de Centla, Mexico, Check List 13 (6), pp. 711-726 : 715

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15560/13.6.711
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0B3B9736-FFCD-DC1B-E457-FEB0198EBF03
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Didelphis sp.
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Didelphis sp.

Material examined. Table 2; Figure 3.

The species could be Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758 or Didelphis virginiana Kerr, 1792 . In the study area, there are potentially both species, and although the morphological characteristics allow for the distinction between them (white cheeks and black portion of tail longer than white portion in D. virginiana than in D. marsupialis ; Reid 2009), this distinction is not evident in photographs obtained from infrared-illuminated cameratraps. Therefore, we decided to report these 2 species as Didelphis sp.