Monodelphis touan (Shaw 1800)
- Dataset
- Order Marsupialia
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Shaw (1800): Monodelphis touan. Gen . ZooL 1 (2)
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Marsupialia
- family
- Didelphidae
- genus
- Monodelphis
- species
- Monodelphis touan
discussion
COMMENT: Includes emiliae; see Cabrera, 1958: 9. M. emiliae is considered a valid species according to Pine and Handley, in prep (RHP) and touan is probably a junior synonym of brevicaudata (RHP).
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Brazil; Paraguay; N. Argentina; French Guiana; Guyana; Surinam.
materials_examined
TYPE LOCALITY: French Guiana, Cayenne.
Name
- Homonyms
- Monodelphis touan (Shaw 1800)