Philander quica (Temminck, 1824)

Voss, Robert S., 2022, An Annotated Checklist Of Recent Opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2022 (455), pp. 1-77 : 40

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7161607
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scientific name	Philander quica (Temminck, 1824)
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TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: The lectotype (designated by Hershkovitz, 1959) is a female specimen collected at “Sapitiba” (= Sepetiba: 22.97° S, 43.70° W; near sea level), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Although this specimen was formerly at the NMW, its current whereabouts are unknown (Voss et al., 2018) GoogleMaps .

SYNONYMS: azaricus Thomas, 1923.

DISTRIBUTION: Philander quica is known from tropical and subtropical landscapes in southeastern Brazil, northeastern Argentina (Misiones), and eastern Paraguay (Voss et al., 2018: fig. 9).

REMARKS: An emended morphological description, illustrations, comparisons with congeneric species, summary statistics for external and craniodental measurements, and analyses of mtDNA sequence data were provided by Voss et al. (2018). This species was previously widely known as Philander frenatus , but the type of frenatus is now known to have been collected in eastern Amazonia, and that name is currently regarded as a junior subjective synonym of P. opossum (see Voss et al., 2018).