Abstract
The Andean white ear opossum (Didelphis pernigra, Allen 1900) is one of the three species of the genus Didelphis reported in Colombia. Here we present a systematic review of D. pernigra in Colombia, with a geographical and altitudinal distribution hypothesis from the country. We reported geographic records and scientific available information of D. pernigra in 40 studies, 55.26 % of the available literature corresponded to local and regional inventories; 23.68 % of other documents were studies about mammal assemblages, while 21.05 % were specific studies about the species and the genus Didelphis in Colombia. We classified literature according to the following subcategories: natural history, diet, inventories, threats, reproduction, uses and perceptions. Most of the literature corresponded to detection in inventories (55.26 %), followed by natural history information (21.05 %) and threats (7.89 %). Research about diet, uses, perception and reproduction, had the lowest proportion with 5.26 %. Regarding distribution, geographic records ranged between 1060 and 3740 m across the three Andean ranges of Colombia. In general, little is known about the ecology or natural history of the species, efforts should be focused on filling the information gaps about natural history, and surveys should fill the distribution gaps along the Western and Central ranges of Colombia.
Acknowledgments
We appreciate the support of Wildlife Conservation Society Colombia and ProCAT Colombia (Proyecto de Conservación de Aguas y Tierras) for supporting the authors for this research. We thank Ahtziri Scanda Palacios González for helpful comments that improved the manuscript.
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Research ethics: All procedures of the work presented are in accordance with the national laws and permits were not required for its development. The authors declare the work presented is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere. All authors approved the manuscript.
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Author contributions: Juan Camilo Rubiano-Perez: investigation, conceptualization, writing, original draft preparation. Francisco Stiven Gómez-Castañeda: formal analysis, methodology, original draft preparation. Leonardo Lemus-Mejía: data curation, validation, methodology. I. Mauricio Vela-Vargas: formal analysis, writing, review and edition. José F. Gonzalez-Maya: formal analysis, writing, review and edition.
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Competing interests: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
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Research funding: The work presented herein did not receive particular funding.
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Data availability: All relevant data is available in the Supplementary Material.
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