Tlacuatzin canescens

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Didelphimorphia
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Metatheria Cladus: Marsupialiformes Infraclassis: Marsupialia Ordo: Didelphimorphia

Tlacuatzin canescens (J.A. Allen, 1893)

Holotype: AMNH MO-2433/AMNH MS-3111, adult ♂, skin and skull, collected by Audley C. Buller on 30 April 1890.
Type locality: “Santo Domingo de Guzman, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico”.

Marmosa oaxacae Merriam, 1897: 43
- Holotype: USNM 68240, adult ♀, skin and skull, collected by Edward Alphonso Goldman and Edward William Nelson on 14 August 1894.
- Type locality: “City of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico”.

Allen, J.A. 1893. Description of a new species of opossum from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 5(14): 235–236. BHL Reference page.
Allen, J.A. 1897. Further notes on mammals collected in Mexico by Dr. Audley C. Buller, with descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 9: 47–58. BHL Reference page.
Merriam, C.H. 1897. Descriptions of two new murine opossums from Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 11: 43–44. BHL Reference page.
Voss, R.S. & Jansa, S.A. 2003. Phylogenetic studies on didelphid marsupials II. Nonmolecular data and new IRBP sequences: separate and combined analyses of didelphine relationships with denser taxon sampling. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 276: 1–82. hdl: 2246/444 Reference page.

Arcangeli, J., Light, J.E. & Cervantes, F.A. 2018. Molecular and morphological evidence of the diversification in the gray mouse opossum, Tlacuatzin canescens (Didelphimorphia), with description of a new species. Journal of Mammalogy 99(1): 138–158. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyx173 Reference page.

English: Tehuantepec Gray Mouse Opossum