Metachirini Hershkovitz, 1992

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 : 31

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A487D6-FFD7-FFC5-AFA7-3EB1FCCCFC5A

treatment provided by

Felipe (2022-10-08 04:20:43, last updated by Plazi 2023-11-07 14:06:55)

scientific name

Metachirini Hershkovitz, 1992
status

 

Tribe Metachirini Hershkovitz, 1992

TYPE GENUS: Metachirus Burmeister, 1854 View in CoL .

SYNONYMS: None.

REMARKS: See Voss and Jansa (2009: 110) for the technical availability of this family-group name from Hershkovitz (1992). Only one genus is included.

Hershkovitz, P. 1992. The South American gracile mouse opossums, genus Gracilinanus Gardner and Creighton, 1989 (Marmosidae, Marsupialia): a taxonomic review with notes on general morphology and relationships. Fieldiana Zoology (new series) 39: i - vi, 1 - 56.