6 DIDELPHYS. 



ISLAND OF COZUMEL OPOSSUM. 



Type An \ility. Cozumel Island, Yucatan. 



Geogr. Distr. Known only from the type locality. 



14. Didelphys mesamericana Oken. 



Didelphis! mesamericana Oken, Lehrb. der Zool., n, 1816, p. 1152. 

 Didelphis! californica Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1833, p. 40. 

 DiJelpliys calijormca Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 



n, 1901, p. 3. Zool. Ser. 



Didelphys mesamericana Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. &W. Indies, 

 F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. i, p. 15, fig. 5, pi. n. Zool. Ser. 



LlNNEAN OPOSSUM. 



Type locality. "Northwestern Mexico, adjacent to California." 

 Geogr. Distr. Oklahoma Territory, through Mexico generally into 

 Guatemala. 



a. Diili'liilnjK iiK'xu nit'i'iciiiKi fr.rcnNis (Allen). 



Didelphis! marsupialis texensis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



N. Y., 1901, p. 172. 

 Didelphys marsnpialis texensis Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 



F. C. M. Pub., n, 1901, Suppl., p. 519. Zool. Ser. 

 Didelphis! mesamericana texensis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



N. Y., 1902, p. 256. 

 Didelphys mesamericana texensis Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & 



W. Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. i, 1904, p. 16. Zool. Ser. 

 TEXAS OPOSSUM. 



Type locality. Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas. 

 Geogr. Distr. Coast region of Texas from Neuces Bay southward, 

 and the lower Rio Grande Valley as far at least as Del Rio, Val Verde 

 County, sporadically northward to San Antonio; Matamoros, State of 

 Tamaulipas, Mexico. 



l>. Didelphys jnesamericana l<tlHi*<-<'iixix (Allen). 



Didelphis! marsupialis talmsccnsis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 I list. X. Y., 1901, p. 173. 



Didelphis! mesamericana tdhdsccnsis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 



I list. N. Y., 1902, p. 257. 

 Didelphys mc\nmai< ./;/./ tiilhisicnsis Klliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. 



iv \V. tndies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. i, 1904, p. 16. Zool. Ser. 

 TABASCO OPOSSUM. 



Type /<>;/// v. Teapa, State of Tabasco, Mexico. 

 Geo >. Distr. State of Vera Cruz to that of Tabasco, and across 

 State <>f Cliiapa-. M< icico, to northern (Hiatemala. 



