Marmosops chucha

Díaz-Nieto & Voss, 2016

Cordillera Slender Opossum

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Marsupialia
Superorder : Ameridelphia
Order : Didelphimorphia
Family : Didelphidae
Subfamily : Didelphinae
Tribe : Thylamyini
Genus : Marmosops
Subgenus : Sciophanes

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Díaz-Nieto, J.F. and Voss, R.S. 2016-05. A revision of the didelphid marsupial genus Marmosops, Part 1. Species of the subgenus Sciophanes. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 402:1-70.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090-402.1.1

Original name as described

Marmosops chucha

Type material

CTUA 434

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Chucha Hacienda Vegas de La Clara, municipio Gómez Plata, Antioquia, Colombia.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Díaz-Nieto, J. F., & Voss, R. S. (2016). A revision of the didelphid marsupial genus Marmosops, Part 1. Species of the subgenus Sciophanes. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1-70.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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