Monodelphis (Mygalodelphys) handleyi Solari, 2007

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 : 27

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scientific name	Monodelphis (Mygalodelphys) handleyi Solari, 2007
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TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: MUSM 15991 , the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin, skull, and preserved tissues of an adult male collected at the Centro de Investigaciones Jenaro Herrera (4.87° S, 73.65° W; 135 m) on the right bank of the lower Río Ucayali, Loreto department, Peru GoogleMaps .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Monodelphis handleyi is currently known from two Peruvian localities—the type locality in Loreto and another in Pasco department. 7 A recent report of M. handleyi from western Brazil ( Bezerra et al., 2019) appears to have been based on a subadult specimen of M. ronaldi (see Ruelas and Pacheco, 2022).

REMARKS: For descriptions, illustrations, measurements, and morphological comparisons with other congeners, see Solari (2007), Voss et al. (2019), and Ruelas and Pacheco (2022). Phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequence data indicate that Monodelphis handleyi belongs to a clade that includes M. osgoodi , M. peruviana , M. ronaldi , and M. saci (see Solari, 2007; Pavan et al., 2014, 2016, 2017; Ruelas and Pacheco, 2022).

7 The Pasco locality, previously unreported in the literature, is vouchered by a single specimen ( MUSM 24217 ) collected by Elena Vivar on the Río Pescado (10.38° S, 75.25° W; 500 m) GoogleMaps .

References

Bezerra, A. M. R., C. R. Bonvicino, F. P. Caramaschi, and R. Castiglia. 2019. Discovery of the rare Handley's short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis handleyi, in the threatened southern Amazonian savanna of Brazil. Mammalian Biology 97: 28 - 35.

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.

Solari, S. 2007. New species of Monodelphis (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) from Peru, with notes on M. adusta (Thomas, 1897). Journal of Mammalogy 88: 319 - 329.

Voss, R. S., D. W. Fleck, and S. A. Jansa. 2019. Mammalian diversity and Matses ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru. Part 3. Marsupials (Didelphimorphia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 432: 1 - 87.