Monodelphis (Monodelphiops) unistriata (Wagner, 1842)

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 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7161491
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scientific name	Monodelphis (Monodelphiops) unistriata
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(Wagner, 1842)

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: NMW B-1063, the holotype by monotypy, consists only of the skin of a male specimen collected at “Ytarare” (= Itararé, at 24.12° S, 49.33° W; ca. 740 m), São Paulo state, Brazil GoogleMaps .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Monodelphis unistriata is known from just two localities, one in southeastern Brazil (the type locality; see above) and another in northeastern Argentina (possibly Misones province ; Pine et al., 2013) .

REMARKS: Alternative interpretations of the phylogenetic relationships of Monodelphis unistriata were discussed by Pine et al. (2013) and Pavan and Voss (2016). A third interpretation of the scant data at hand is that the two specimens currently identified as M. unistriata are nothing more than rare coat-color variants of M. dimidiata . Molecular sequence data, if any can be obtained from these specimens, could help resolve the status of this problematic taxon.

References

Pine, R. H., D. A. Flores, and K. Bauer. 2013. The second known specimen of Monodelphis unistriata (Wagner) (Mammalia: Didelphimorphia), with redescription of the species and phylogenetic analysis. Zootaxa 3640 (3): 425 - 441.