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- Title
AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF RECENT OPOSSUMS (MAMMALIA: DIDELPHIDAE).
- Authors
VOSS, ROBERT S.
- Abstract
Living opossums (Didelphidae) comprise 125 species in 18 genera and 4 subfamilies. This synopsis lists all the didelphid taxa (subfamilies, tribes, genera, subgenera, and species) currently recognised as valid, summarizes information about typification, synonyms, and geographic distributions, remarks noteworthy recent changes in usage, and comments on still outstanding problems. A concluding discussion rejects the notion that the almost twofold increase in opossum species from 1993 to the present is "taxonomic inflation" and considers the impact of new kinds of data and new methods of data analysis on species delimitation.
- Subjects
OPOSSUMS; MAMMALS; DATA analysis; SPECIES; SYNONYMS
- Publication
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2022, Vol 455, Issue 1, p4
- ISSN
0003-0090
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1