Marmosa (Exulomarmosa) zeledoni Goldman, 1911

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 : 13

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scientific name	Marmosa (Exulomarmosa) zeledoni Goldman, 1911
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TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: USNM 12885 About USNM , the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of an adult male collected at Navarro (9.82° N, 83.87° S; ca. 840 m), Cartago province, Costa Rica .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Marmosa zeledoni is known from widely scattered localities, mostly in premontane or montane rainforest (to 2200 m) but sometimes in very wet lowland forests, from north-central Nicaragua southward through Costa Rica and Panama to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador ( Rossi et al., 2010: fig. 21).

REMARKS: See Rossi et al. (2010) for an emended description, tabulated measurement data, and morphological comparisons with congeneric species. Marmosa zeledoni was long regarded as a synonym or subspecies of M. mexicana (e.g., by Tate, 1933), but these are morphologically and genetically distinct taxa that are known to occur sympatrically at several localities ( Rossi et al., 2010; Gutiérrez et al., 2010).

References

Gutierrez, E. E., S. A. Jansa, and R. S. Voss. 2010. Molecular systematics of mouse opossums (Didelphidae: Marmosa): assessing species limits using mitochondrial DNA sequences, with comments on phylogenetic relationships and biogeography. American Museum Novitates 3692: 1 - 22.

Rossi, R. V., R. S. Voss, and D. P. Lunde. 2010. A revision of the didelphid marsupial genus Marmosa. Part 1. The species in Tate's Mexicana and Mitis sections and other closely related forms. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 334: 1 - 83.

Tate, G. H. H. 1933. A systematic revision of the marsupial genus Marmosa with a discussion of the adaptive radiation of the murine opossums (Marmosa). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 66 (1): 1 - 250 + 26 pls.