Monodelphis (Mygalodelphys), Pavan and Voss, 2016

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 : 26

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scientific name	Monodelphis (Mygalodelphys)
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Subgenus Mygalodelphys Pavan and Voss, 2016

TYPE SPECIES: Peramys adustus Thomas, 1897 , by original designation.

SYNONYMS: None.

REMARKS: See Pavan and Voss (2016) for a diagnosis of this morphologically distinctive taxon. Subgeneric monophyly is strongly supported by phylogenetic analyses of the multilocus sequence datasets reported by Pavan et al. (2014, 2016) and by Bayesian analysis of the dataset reported by Vilela et al (2015). Nine species are currently recognized, but several of these are difficult to distinguish morphologically, and identifications of unsequenced specimens are correspondingly problematic.

References

Pavan, S. E., S. A. Jansa, and R. S. Voss. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of short-tailed opossums (Didelphidae: Monodelphis): taxonomic implications and tests of evolutionary hypotheses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79: 199 - 214.

Thomas, O. 1897. Descriptions of four new South- American mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (ser. 6) 20: 218 - 221.

Vilela, J. F., J. A. de Oliveira, and C. A. M. Russo. 2015. The diversification of the genus Monodelphis and the chronology of Didelphidae (Didelphimorphia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174: 414 - 427.