Thylamys (Thylamys) macrurus (Olfers, 1818)

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 : 54

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7161677
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scientific name	Thylamys (Thylamys) macrurus (Olfers, 1818)
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TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: UMMZ 125243, the neotype (designated by Voss et al., 2009a), consists of the skin and skull of an adult female collected 28 km SW Pedro Juan Caballero (22.63° S, 55.95° W), Amambay department, Paraguay.

SYNONYMS: griseus Desmarest, 1827.

DISTRIBUTION: Thylamys macrurus is only known from eastern Paraguay and from the adjacent Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul ( Cáceres et al., 2007: fig. 1; Voss et al., 2009a: fig. 3).

REMARKS: Morphological descriptions of Thylamys macrurus , together with measurement data and taxonomic comparisons are in Carmignotto and Monfort (2006), Voss et al. (2009a), and Giarla et al. (2010). Relevant nomenclatural issues were discussed by Voss et al. (2009a). Phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence datasets (e.g., Giarla et al., 2010; Díaz-Nieto et al., 2016a; Amador and Giannini, 2016) have yet to convincingly resolve the relationships of this species within the nominotypical subgenus.

References

Caceres, N. C., R. P. Napoli, W. H. Lopes, J. Casella, and G. S. Gazeta. 2007. Natural history of the marsupial Thylamys macrurus (Mammalia, Didelphidae) in fragments of savannah in southwestern Brazil. Journal of Natural History 41: 1979 - 1988.

Diaz-Nieto, J. F., S. A. Jansa, and R. S. Voss. 2016 a. Phylogenetic relationships of Chacodelphys (Marsupialia: Didelphidae) based on ancient DNA sequences. Journal of Mammalogy 97: 394 - 404.

Giarla, T. C., R. S. Voss, and S. A. Jansa. 2010. Species limits and phylogenetic relationships in the didelphid marsupial genus Thylamys based on mitochondrial DNA sequences and morphology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 346: 1 - 67.

Voss, R. S., P. Myers, F. Catzeflis, A. P. Carmignotto, and J. Barreiro. 2009 a. The six opossums of Felix de Azara: identification, taxonomic history, neotype designations, and nomenclatural recommendations. In R. S. Voss and M. D. Carleton (editors), Systematic mammalogy: contributions in honor of Guy G. Musser. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 331: 406 - 433.