Marmosops woodalli

(Pine, 1981)

Woodall's 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

Pine, R.H. 1981-05-15. Reviews of the mouse opossums _Marmosa parvidens_ Tate and _Marmosa invicta_ Goldman (Mammalia: Marsupialia: Didelphidae) with description of a new species. Mammalia 45(1):55-70.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.1981.45.1.55

Original name as described

Marmosa parvidens woodalli

Type material

USNM:MAMM:393532

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

the wooded area surrounding the Belém waterworks, Nova Área Experimental, Utinga (1° 27' S, 48° 29' W; ), Pará, Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

split from M. pinheiroi

Taxonomy notes citation

Ferreira, C., de Oliveira, A. C. M., Lima-Silva, L. G., & Rossi, R. V. (2020). Taxonomic review of the slender mouse opossums of the "Parvidens" group from Brazil (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae: Marmosops), with the description of a new species. Zootaxa, 4890(2), 201-233.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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