Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 3: Marsupials (Didelphimorphia)
Author
Voss, Robert S.
Author
Fleck, David W.
Author
Jansa, Sharon A.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2019
2019-06-14
2019
432
1
89
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Tribe
Didelphini
Members of the tribe
Didelphini
are large opossums (with average adults weights>
300 g
), and the three genera that occur in our region are all unambiguously distinguishable by exter- nal and craniodental characters (
Emmons, 1997
;
Voss and Jansa, 2009
). However, the water opossum is seldom observed, and the Matses do not distinguish among local species of “foureyed” opossums (
Philander
spp.
and
Metachirus myosuros
); only the so-called common opossum (
Didelphis marsupialis
) has its own proper name in the Matses zoological lexicon.