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- Title
A Neotype for Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758.
- Authors
FEIJÓ, ANDERSON; VOSS, ROBERT S.
- Abstract
Didelphis marsupialis, type species of the genus Didelphis, is a widely distributed and commonly studied American marsupial. Unfortunately, the previously noncontroversial application of the epithet marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758, has recently been called into question, and the lectotype is no longer extant. To preserve long-standing binomial usage for this species and other congeneric taxa, we designate a specimen from Surinam in the Royal Ontario Museum as neotype.
- Subjects
SURINAME; ROYAL Ontario Museum (Toronto, Ont.); AMERICAN studies; MARSUPIALS
- Publication
American Museum Novitates, 2019, Issue 3923, p1
- ISSN
0003-0082
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1206/3923.1