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 is redundant, though, since all opossums are native to the Americas, while their taxonomic relatives, the possums, are native to 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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