Metachirus
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Didelphimorphia |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Didelphidae
Subfamilia: Didelphinae
Tribus: Metachirini
Genus: Metachirus
Species (3): M. aritanai – M. myosuros – M. nudicaudatus
Name
[edit]Metachirus Burmeister, 1854: 135
- Type species: Didelphis nudicaudata E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803, by subsequent designation by Thomas (1888).
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Burmeister, C.H.C 1854. Systematische Uebersicht der Thiere Brasiliens: welche während einer Reise durch die Provinzen von Rio de Janeiro und Minas geraës gesammlt oder beobachtet Wurden. Erster Theil. Säugethiere (Mammalia). Georg Reimer: Berlin. i–x + 341 pp BHL DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.13607 Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Voss, R.S., Fleck, D.W. & Jansa, S.A. 2019. Mammalian diversity and Matses ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru. Part 3: marsupials (Didelphimorphia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 432: 1–90. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.432.1.1 Reference page.
- Voss, R.S. 2022. An Annotated Checklist of Recent Opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 455: 1–76. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1 Reference page.
- Miranda, C.L., Nunes, M. da S., Machado, A.F., Farias, I.P., Menezes, F.H., Ardente, N.C., Santos-Filho, M., Bredin, Y.K. & Silva, M.N.F. 2023. A new species of jupati, genus Metachirus Burmeister 1854 (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) for the Brazilian Amazon. Mammalia 87(2): 172–189. DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2021-0176 Reference page.
Vernacular names
[edit]português do Brasil: Jupatis