Monodelphis gardneri

Solari, Pacheco, E. Vivar, & L. H. Emmons, 2012

Gardner's Short-tailed Opossum

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Marsupialia
Superorder : Ameridelphia
Order : Didelphimorphia
Family : Didelphidae
Subfamily : Didelphinae
Tribe : Marmosini
Genus : Monodelphis
Subgenus : Microdelphys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Solari, S., Pacheco, V.R., Vivar, E. and Emmons, L.H. 2012-10. A new species of Monodelphis (Mammalia: Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) from the montane forests of central Perú. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 125(3):295-307.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.2988/11-33.1

Original name as described

Monodelphis gardneri

Type material

MUSM 24216

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Abra Esperanza, San Alberto, Oxapampa Province, Pasco Department, Perú, elev. 2784 m; GPS coordinates, taken in the field, are 11°56'S, 71°17'W."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Peru

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Solari, S., Pacheco, V., Vivar, E., & Emmons, L. H. (2012). A new species of Monodelphis (Mammalia: Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) from the montane forests of central Perú. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 125(3), 295-307.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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