Title
An annotated checklist of Recent opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae)
Title Variants
Alternative:
Checklist of recent opossums
Related Titles
Series:
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 455
By
Voss, Robert S.
, author
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, [2022]
Notes
"Issued April 4, 2022."
Living opossums (Didelphidae) comprise 125 species in 18 genera and 4 subfamilies. This synopsis lists all the didelphid taxa (subfamilies, tribes, genera, subgenera, and species) currently recognised as valid, summarizes information about typification, synonyms, and geographic distributions, remarks noteworthy recent changes in usage, and comments on still outstanding problems. A concluding discussion rejects the notion that the almost twofold increase in opossum species from 1993 to the present is “taxonomic inflation” and considers the impact of new kinds of data and new methods of data analysis on species delimitation.
Subjects
Classification
,
Identification
,
Mammals
,
Opossums
Call Number
QH1 .A4 no. 455 2022
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1
OCLC:
1308951704
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