A revision of the didelphid marsupial genus Marmosa Part 2 Species of the rapposa group (subgenus Micoureus)

Title Variants

Alternative: Rapposa group of Micoureus

Alternative: Species of the rapposa group (subgenus Micoureus)

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Series: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 439

By

Voss, Robert S. , author

Giarla, Thomas C. , author
Díaz-Nieto, Juan F. , author
Jansa, Sharon A. , author

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, [2020]

Notes

Part 1 issued as no. 402 (2016) of Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.

"Issued June 1, 2020."

In this report, the second of a revisionary series on mouse opossums (Marmosa), we analyze cytochrome b sequence data from 166 specimens of the subgenus Micoureus and delimit putative species using the multirate Poisson Tree Processes (mPTP) method. That analysis identifies 21 putative species, many of which can be matched with available names, including alstoni, constantiae, demerarae, limae, germana, meridae, paraguayana, parda, perplexa, phaea, rapposa, and rutteri. However, some of these nominal taxa are not morphologically diagnosable, and in the absence of other corroborating evidence, we do not recommend that they all be recognized as valid. Phylogenetic analyses of a multigene dataset suggest that putative species of Micoureus belong to several well-supported clades, one of which (the "Rapposa Group") is revised in this report. As defined herein, the Rapposa Group includes at least three valid species: M. rapposa Thomas, 1899 (including budini Thomas, 1920); M. parda Tate, 1931; and M. rutteri Thomas, 1924. Herein we document their ecogeographic distributions and diagnostic traits, comment on their taxonomic histories, and list the specimens we examined (including all relevant type material).

Subjects

Classification , Latin America , Mammals , Marmosa , Opossums , Phylogeny

Call Number

QH1 .A4 no.439 2020

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090.439.1.1
OCLC: 1155923592