Thylamys karimii

(F. Petter, 1968)

Karimi's Fat-tailed Opossum

Also as Karimi's Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum|Karimi's Thylamys.
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Location:Brazil, Mato Grosso, Chapada dos Guimarães National ParkDate taken:Mar 30, 2013

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 2358

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Marsupialia
Superorder : incertae sedis
Order : Didelphimorphia
Family : Didelphidae
Subfamily : Didelphinae
Tribe : Thylamyini
Genus : Thylamys
Subgenus : Xerodelphys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Petter, F. 1968. Une sarigue nouvelle du Nord-Est du Brésil, Marmosa karimii sp. nov. (Marsupiaux, Didelphidés). Mammalia 32(3):313-316.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.1968.32.3.313

Original name as described

Marmosa karimii

Other common names

Karimi's Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum · Karimi's Thylamys

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1968-148

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"région d'Exu, Pernambuco, Brazil."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Distribution notes

The Cerrado and Caatinga of C and NE Brazil.

IUCN Red List status

Vulnerable

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000127

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 2 names and synonyms.

Marmosa karimii

(F. Petter, 1968)

Family

Didelphidae

Root name

karimii

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN-ZM-MO-1968-148

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

313

Authority publication

Mammalia

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:8) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:21) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)

Thylamys karimii

Corbet & J. Edwards Hill, 1991

Family

Didelphidae

Root name

karimii

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

10

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1991:10) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  2. Gardner (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8547)
  3. Mittermeier & Wilson (2015:175) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59410)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #136653) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #136653) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000127) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  7. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/136653/197308408) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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