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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)

 

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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.

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 448 pp.

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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