Microdelphys Burmeister, 1856

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 : 21

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scientific name	Microdelphys Burmeister, 1856
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Subgenus Microdelphys Burmeister, 1856 View in CoL

TYPE SPECIES: Didelphis tristriata Illiger, 1815 (= Monodelphis americana ; see below), by subsequent designation ( Thomas, 1888a).

SYNONYMS: None.

REMARKS: See Pavan and Voss (2016) for a morphological diagnosis of this distinctive taxon. Monophyly of Microdelphys as recognized herein was consistently supported by parsimony, maximum-likelihood, and Bayesian analyses of multilocus sequence data reported by Pavan et al. (2014, 2016). Although subgeneric monophyly was not supported by maximum-likelihood and Bayesian analyses of a multigene dataset reported by Vilela et al. (2015), none of the conflicting nodes in Vilela et al.’s results were strongly supported. Four species are currently recognized.

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. 1888 a. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London: British Museum (Natural History).

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.