Marmosops woodalli

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Didelphimorphia
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cladus: Metatheria Clade: Marsupialiformes Cohors: Marsupialia Ordo: Didelphimorphia

Marmosops woodalli (Pine, 1981)

Holotype: USNM 393532 (field no. 5054), adult ♂,skin and skull, collected by R.H. Pine on 14 June 1968.
Type locality: “"Nova Area Experimental", Utinga (the wooded area surrounding the Belém waterworks), Belém (1°27'S, 48°29' W), Pará, Brazil”.

Marmosa parvidens woodalli Pine, 1981: 62 [original combination, as subspecies]
Marmosops woodalli: Ferreira, Oliveira, Silva-Lima & Rossi, 2020: 206 [subsequent combination, elevated to species]

Pine, R.H. 1981. Reviews of the mouse opossums Marmosa parvidens Tate and Marmosa invicta Goldman (Mammalia: Marsupialia: Didelphidae) with description of a new species. Mammalia 45(1): 55–70. DOI: 10.1515/mamm.1981.45.1.55 Reference page.
Ferreira, C., Oliveira, A.C.M., Lima-Silva, L.G. & Rossi, R.V. 2020. Taxonomic review of the slender mouse opossums of the “Parvidens” group from Brazil (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae: Marmosops), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4890(2): 201–233. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.2.3 Reference page.

English: Woodall's Slender Opossum