Title
On the relationships of "Marmosa" formosa Shamel, 1930 (Marsupialia, Didelphidae), a phylogenetic puzzle from the chaco of northern Argentina
Title Variants
Alternative:
Relationships of Marmosa formosa
Related Titles
Series:
American Museum novitates, no. 3442
By
Voss, Robert S.
Gardner, Alfred L.
Jansa, Sharon A.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2004
Notes
Title from caption.
"June 2, 2004."
"The holotype and only known specimen of Marmosa formosa Shamel, a nominal species currently synonymized with Gracilinanus agilis Burmeister, is strikingly unlike any other known didelphid marsupial. Phylogenetic analyses based on nonmolecular characters and IRBP sequences suggest that formosa is either the sister-taxon of Thylamys (including Lestodelphys) or Monodelphis. Because neither alternative is strongly supported by the data at hand, and because including formosa in Thylamys or in Monodelphis would compromise the diagnosability of those taxa, a new genus - Chacodelphys - is proposed to contain it. Currently known only from northern Argentina, Chacodelphys formosa may be widely distributed in the Chaco and other adjacent Neotropical biomes"--P. [1].
Subjects
Argentina
,
Chacodelphys
,
Classification
,
Formosa (Province)
,
Geographical distribution
,
Gran Chaco
,
Mammals
,
Marmosa
,
Marsupials
,
Opossums
,
Phylogeny
Call Number
QL1 .A436 no.3442, 2004
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2004)442<0001:OTROMF>2.0.CO;2
OCLC:
55536829
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