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Philander opossum

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Description

Philander opossum (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:55.

TYPE LOCALITY: "America;" restricted to Surinam by J. A. Allen (1900) and further restricted to Paramaribo, Surinam, by Matschie (1916).

DISTRIBUTION: Tamaulipas, México, through Central and South America to Paraguay and NE Argentina.

SYNONYMS: azaricus Thomas, 1923; canus Osgood, 1913; crucialis Thomas, 1923; frenata Olfers, 1818; fuscogriseus J. A. Allen, 1900; grisescens J. A. Allen, 1901; melantho Thomas, 1923; melanurus Thomas, 1899; pallidus J. A. Allen, 1901; quica Temminck, 1824; superciliaris Olfers, 1818; virginianus Tiedemann, 1808.

COMMENTS: Corbet and Hill (1980), Hall (1981), Husson (1978), and Pine (1973) used Metachirops opossum for this species.

Notes

Published as part of Alfred L. Gardner, 1993, Order Didelphimorphia, pp. 15-23 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353070

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Is part of
Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353070 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF82FFC961710E1C0C5DE57AFF8BFFE1 (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Didelphidae
Genus
Philander
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Didelphimorphia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
opossum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Philander opossum (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Gardner, 1993

References

  • Allen, J. A. 1900. Description of new American marsupials. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 13: 191 - 199.
  • Matschie, P. 1916. Bemerkungen uber die Gattung Didelphis L. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1916 (1): 259 - 272.
  • Osgood, W. H. 1913. New Peruvian mammals. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 10: 93 - 100.
  • Olfers, I. von. 1818. Bemerkungen zu Illiger's Ueberblick der Saugthiere nach ihrer Vertheilung uber die Welttheile, rucksichtich der Sudamericanischen Arten (Species). Abhandlung X in W. L. von Eschwege, Journal von Brasilien, odor vermischte Nachrichten aus Brasilien, auf wissenschaftlichen Reisen gesammelt. Heft 2 in F. Bertuch (ed.), Neue Bibliothek der wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen zur Erweiterung der Erd- und Volkerkunde, Band 15: 192 - 237. Weimar.
  • Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.
  • Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
  • Husson, A. M. 1978. The mammals of Suriname. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 569 pp., 160 pls.