CLASS MAMMALIA. 



Order I. Marsuplalia. Marsupials. 



Family I. Didelphyidse. ' 0|)<0Aiiiaiii9. , ; , ; , 



Genus i . ChiroJiectes. 



Chironectes Illig., Prodr. Syst. Mair'fr-.''»Vl^ Av!, sSii/'pr-jt. ' Typt^ 

 Latraf minima Zimmermann. 

 Memina G. Fisch., Zoogn., in, 1814, p. 6n. 



1. Chironectes minimus (Zimmermann). 



Latra! minima Zimm., Geog. Gesch., 11, 1780, p. 317. 



Mustela paraguensis Kerr, Linn. Anim. Kingd., 1792, p. 172. 



Mustela guianensis Kerr, Linn. Anim. Kingd., 1792, p. 174. 



Didelphis! memina Cuv., Tabl. Element., 1798, p. 125. 



Lutra sarcovienna Shaw, Gen. Zool., i, Pt. 11, 1809, p. 447. 



Chironectes variegatus Illig., Abh. Ak. Wiss. Berl., 181 1, p. 107. 



Chironectes palmata Cuv., R^gn. Anim., i, 1817, p. 174. 



Chironectes yapock Desm., Mamm., 1, 1820, p. 261. 



Chironectes minimus Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. I, 1904, p. 3, figs. I, I. Zool. Ser. 

 Water Opossum, Yapock. Zarro de Agua in Costa Rica; Tlacuazin 

 de Agiia in Guatemala. 



Type locality. Guiana. 



Geogr. Distr. Guatemala, south through Central America to 

 southern Brazil. 



Genus 2. Marniosa. 



Marmosa Gray, Lond. Med. Repos., xv, 182 1, p. 308. Type Didel- 

 phis! murina Linnaeus. 

 Micoureus Less., Tabl. R^gn. Anim., Mamm., 1842, p. 186. 

 Asagis and Notagogus Glog., Hand- u. Hilfsb. Naturg., i, 1841, 

 p. 82. 



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