Marmosops handleyi (Pine, 1981:67)
Handley's slender mouse opossum
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 16 June 1950
Rediscovered in 2004 (2011?)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Cordillera Central, Antioquia, Colombia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: FMNH 69838 (skin, skull, and postcranial skeleton of an adult female) (Voss, 2022:50)
Type locality: "9 km S Valdivia (7.10° N, 75.43° W; 1400 m), Antioquia department, Colombia" (Voss, 2022:50)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Pine, R. H. (1981). Review of the mouse opossums Marmosa parvidens Tate and Marmosa invicta Goldman (Mammalia: Marsupialia: Didelphidae) with description of a new species. Mammalia 45: 55-70.
Other references:
Alberico, M. (2006). Tunato de Handley Marmosops handleyi, pp. 93-95. In: Libro rojo de los Mamíferos de Colombia (JV Rodríguez-Mahecha, M Alberico, F Trujillo, J Jorgenson, eds.). Serie de Libros Rojos de Especies Amenazadas de Colombia. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial. Bogotá, Colombia.
Alberico, M., Cadena, A., Hernández-Camacho, J. and Muñoz-Saba, Y. (2000). Mamíferos (Synapsida: Theria) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 1: 43-75.
Brown, Barbara E. (2004). Atlas of New World Marsupials. Fieldiana (Zoology) 102: vii + 308. [p. 74]
Cuartas-Calle, C. A. and Muñoz-Arango, J. (2003). Lista de los Mamíferos (Mammalia: Theria) del departamento de Antioquia, Colombia. Biota Colombiana 4: 65-78.
Díaz-Nieto, Juan F. and Voss, Robert 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 402: 1-70.
Díaz-Nieto, Juan F. et al. (2011). Rediscovery and redescription of Marmosops handleyi (Pine, 1981) (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae), the least known Andean slender mouse opossum. Mastozoología Neotropical 18(1): 45-61.
Gardner, A. L. (1993). Order Didelphimorphia, pp. 15-23. In: Wilson, D. E. and Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World. Second edition. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Gardner, A. L. (2005). Order Didelphimorphia, pp. 3-18. In: Wilson, D. E. and Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World. Third edition. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Gardner, A. L. and Creighton, G. K. (2008). “Genus Marmosops”, pp. 61-74. In: Gardner, A. L. (ed.). Mammals of South America, vol. 1: Marsupials, Xenarthrans, Shrews, and Bats. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Voss, Robert S. (2022). An annotated checklist of recent opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 55: 1-74, 4 tbls.
Weksler, M., Patterson, B. and Bonvicino, C. (2008). Marmosops handleyi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 08 March 2015.
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