Monodelphis (Mygalodelphys) kunsi Pine, 1975

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Monodelphis (Mygalodelphys) kunsi Pine, 1975

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: USNM 461348 , the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of an adult male collected at La Granja (13.30° S, 64.15° W; 200 m), on the west bank of the Río Itonamas , Beni department, Bolivia .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: As currently recognized (see Remarks), Monodelphis kunsi is known from the Chaco, Cerrado, and Pantanal, including localities in eastern Bolivia (Beni, Santa Cruz, Tarija), northern Argentina (Salta), Paraguay (Canendeyú, Presidente Hayes), and Brazil (Distrito Federal, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso del Sur, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Tocantins) ( de la Sancha et al., 2007; Pavan et al., 2017; Antunes et al., 2021). The eastern Amazonian specimens (from Pará) reported by Gettinger et al. (2011) were reidentified by Pavan et al. (2017) as M. saci , and the western Amazonian locality (in Acre) mapped by Pine and Handley (2008) is almost certainly also based on a specimen of the latter species.

REMARKS: No emended description of Monodelphis kunsi that includes all the characters now known to be important for distinguishing species of the subgenus Mygalodelphys has yet been published. Compilations of measurement data are in de la Sancha et al. (2007) and Pavan (2015). Phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequence data (e.g., by Pavan et al., 2014, 2016) have consistently recovered M. kunsi as the sister taxon of M. pinocchio .