A new species of the didelphid marsupial genus Monodelphis from eastern Bolivia

Title Variants

Alternative: New Monodelphis from Bolivia

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3740

By

Voss, Robert S.

Pine, Ronald H.
Solari, Sergio

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

[New York], American Museum of Natural History, c2012

Notes

Caption title.

"April 18, 2012."

A new species of the didelphid marsupial genus Monodelphis is described from the eastern Bolivian province of Santa Cruz. The new species, currently known from a single specimen, belongs to the M. brevicaudata group but differs from other taxa within that clade (M. brevicaudata, M. domestica, M. glirina, M. maraxina, and M. palliolata) in size, qualitative morphological characters, and cytochrome-b gene sequences.

Subjects

Bolivia , Classification , Mammals , Monodelphis sanctaerosae , Santa Cruz (Dept.) , Short-tailed opossums

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3740 2012

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 786033569