Didelphinae
| Didelphinae[1][2] | |
|---|---|
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| Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) in Ohio. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Subfamily: | Didelphinae Gray, 1821 |
| Genera | |
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Chacodelphys | |
The Didelphinae are a subfamily of opossums consisting of 15 genera and 98 species, one of them extinct.[2][3][4] Specimens have been collected throughout the Americas, but are predominant in South and Central America.[5]
Some sources call this subfamily the "American opossums",[2][6] while others use that term for the whole family of opossums, Didelphidae.[1] The term may be redundant, though, since all opossums are native to the Americas, while their distant Australian taxonomic relatives, in the suborder Phalangeriformes are referred to as possums in Australia.
Classification
- Subfamily Didelphinae
- Genus Chacodelphys
- C. formosa - Chacoan pygmy opossum
- Genus Chironectes
- C. minimus - water opossum
- Genus Cryptonanus
- C. agricolai - Agricola's gracile opossum
- C. chacoensis - Chacoan gracile opossum
- C. guahybae - Guahiba gracile opossum
- †C. ignitus - red-bellied gracile opossum
- C. unduaviensis - Unduavi gracile opossum
- Genus Didelphis
- D. albiventris - white-eared opossum
- D. aurita - big-eared opossum
- D. imperfecta - Guianan white-eared opossum
- D. marsupialis - common opossum
- D. pernigra - Andean white-eared opossum
- D. virginiana - Virginia opossum
- Genus Gracilinanus
- G. aceramarcae - Aceramarca gracile opossum
- G. agilis - agile gracile opossum
- G. dryas - wood sprite gracile opossum
- G. emilae - Emilia's gracile opossum
- G. marica - northern gracile opossum
- G. microtarsus - Brazilian gracile opossum
- Genus Hyladelphys
- H. kalinowskii - Kalinowski's mouse opossum
- Genus Lestodelphys
- L. halli - Patagonian opossum
- Genus Lutreolina
- L. crassicaudata - lutrine opossum
- Lutreolina massoia[7]
- Genus Marmosa
- Subgenus Marmosa
- M. andersoni - heavy-browed mouse opossum
- M. isthmica - isthmian mouse opossum
- M. lepida - rufous mouse opossum
- M. mexicana - Mexican mouse opossum
- M. murina - Linnaeus's mouse opossum
- M. quichua - Quechuan mouse opossum
- M. robinsoni - Robinson's mouse opossum
- M. rubra - red mouse opossum
- M. simonsi
- M. tyleriana - Tyler's mouse opossum
- M. waterhousei
- M. xerophila - Guajira mouse opossum
- M. zeledoni
- Subgenus Micoureus
- M. alstoni - Alston's mouse opossum
- M. constantiae - white-bellied woolly mouse opossum
- M. demerarae - woolly mouse opossum
- M. paraguayanus - Tate's woolly mouse opossum
- M. phaeus - little woolly mouse opossum
- M. regina - bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum
- Subgenus Marmosa
- Genus Marmosops
- M. bishopi - Bishop's slender opossum
- M. cracens - narrow-headed slender opossum
- M. creightoni - Creighton's slender opossum
- M. fuscatus - dusky slender opossum
- M. handleyi - Handley's slender opossum
- M. impavidus - Tschudi's slender opossum
- M. incanus - gray slender opossum
- M. invictus - Panama slender opossum
- M. juninensis - Junin slender opossum
- M. neblina - Neblina slender opossum
- M. noctivagus - white-bellied slender opossum
- M. ocellatus - Dorothy's slender opossum
- M. parvidens - delicate slender opossum
- M. paulensis - Brazilian slender opossum
- M. pinheiroi - Pinheiro's slender opossum
- Genus Metachirus
- M. nudicaudatus - brown four-eyed opossum
- Genus Monodelphis
- M. adusta - sepia short-tailed opossum
- M. americana - northern three-striped opossum
- M. brevicaudata - northern red-sided opossum
- M. dimidiata - yellow-sided opossum
- M. domestica - gray short-tailed opossum
- M. emiliae - Emilia's short-tailed opossum
- M. glirina - Amazonian red-sided opossum
- M. iheringi - Ihering's three-striped opossum
- M. kunsi - pygmy short-tailed opossum
- M. maraxina - Marajó short-tailed opossum
- M. osgoodi - Osgood's short-tailed opossum
- M. palliolata - hooded red-sided opossum
- M. reigi - Reig's opossum
- M. ronaldi - Ronald's opossum
- M. rubida - chestnut-striped opossum
- M. scalops - long-nosed short-tailed opossum
- M. sorex - southern red-sided opossum
- M. theresa - southern three-striped opossum
- M. umbristriata - red three-striped opossum
- M. unistriata - one-striped opossum
- Genus Philander
- P. andersoni - Anderson's four-eyed opossum
- P. deltae - Deltaic four-eyed opossum
- P. frenatus - southeastern four-eyed opossum
- P. mcilhennyi - McIlhenny's four-eyed opossum
- P. mondolfii - Mondolfi's four-eyed opossum
- P. olrogi - Olrog's four-eyed opossum
- P. opossum - gray four-eyed opossum
- Genus Thylamys
- T. cinderella - Cinderella fat-tailed mouse opossum
- T. citellus
- T. elegans - elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum
- T. fenestrae
- T. karimii - Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum
- T. macrurus - Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum
- T. pallidior - white-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum
- T. pulchellus
- T. pusillus - common fat-tailed mouse opossum
- T. sponsorius - Argentine fat-tailed mouse opossum
- T. tatei - Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum
- T. velutinus - dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum
- T. venustus - buff-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum
- Genus Tlacuatzin
- T. canescens - grayish mouse opossum
- Genus Chacodelphys
- Extinct genera:
- Andinodelphys - Marshall & de Muizon, 1988 (†)
- Coona - Simpson, 1938 (†)
- Incadelphys - Marshall & de Muizon, 1988 (†)
- Itaboraidelphys - Marshall & de Muizon, 1984 (†)
- Marmosopsis - Paula Couto, 1962 (†)
- Mizquedelphys - Marshall & de Muizon, 1988 (†)
- Pucadelphys - Marshall & de Muizon, 1988 (†)
- Thylophorops - Reig, 1952 (†)
- Thylatheridium - Reig, 1952 (†)
- Zygolestes - Ameghino, 1898 (†)
References
- 1 2 http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=552338
- 1 2 3 http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=107310
- ↑ http://www.organismnames.com/details.htm?lsid=164149
- ↑ http://starcentral.mbl.edu/microscope/portal.php?pagetitle=classification&BLCHID=24-352
- ↑ http://www.boldsystems.org/views/taxbrowser.php?taxid=3253
- ↑ http://www.eol.org/pages/2844138
- ↑ Juan A. Martínez-Lanfranco , David Flores , J. Pablo Jayat , and Guillermo D'Elía, A new species of lutrine opossum, genus Lutreolina Thomas (Didelphidae), from the South American Yungas, Source: Journal of Mammalogy, 95(2):225-240. 2014.
Further reading
- Les marsupiaux du Tertiaire d'Europe.
- Phylogenetic studies on didelphid marsupials II. Nonmolecular data and new IRBP sequences: Separate and combined analyses of didelphine relationships with denser taxon sampling.
- New didelphine marsupials from La Venta fauna (Miocene) of Colombia, South America.
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