Monodelphis handleyi

Solari, 2007

Handley's Short-tailed Opossum

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Marsupialia
Superorder : incertae sedis
Order : Didelphimorphia
Family : Didelphidae
Subfamily : Didelphinae
Tribe : Marmosini
Genus : Monodelphis
Subgenus : Mygalodelphys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Solari, S. 2007-04-20. New species of Monodelphis (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) from Peru, with notes on _M. adusta_ (Thomas, 1897). Journal of Mammalogy 88(2):319-329.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1644/06-MAMM-A-075R1.1

Original name as described

Monodelphis handleyi

Type material

MUSM 15991

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Centro de Investigaciones Jenaro Herrera, 2.8 km E of Jenaro Herrera, " Requena, Loreto, Peru.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Peru

Distribution notes

Known ony from two localities in C Peru (Loreto and Pasco). A specimen reported from W Brazil by Bezerra et al. (2019) appears to represent a subadult of M. ronaldi (see Ruelas and Pacheco 2022).

Distribution references

Bezerra, A. M., Bonvicino, C. R., Caramaschi, F. P., & Castiglia, R. (2019). Discovery of the rare Handley’s short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis handleyi, in the threatened southern Amazonian savanna of Brazil. Mammalian Biology, 97, 28-35. · Ruelas, D., & Pacheco, V. (2022). New morphological data and phylogenetic position of the rare short-tailed opossum Monodelphis ronaldi (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) with new records. Mammalian Biology, 102(1), 189-204.

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Solari, S. (2007). New species of Monodelphis (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) from Peru, with notes on M. adusta. Journal of Mammalogy, 88(2), 319-329.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000071

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Names and synonyms

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Monodelphis handleyi

Solari, 2007

Family

Didelphidae

Root name

handleyi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MUSM 15991

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

323

Authority publication

Journal of Mammalogy

Name usages

  1. Mittermeier & Wilson (2015:148) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59410)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #199833) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #199833) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000071) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  5. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/199833/115345427) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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