Name - Gracilinanus Gardner & Creighton 1989

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:723222 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Gracilinanus

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Original Description Reference

• A new generic name for Tate's (1933) microtarsus group of South American mouse opossums (Marsupialia: Didelphidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 102(1) 1989: 3-7. [Zoological Record Volume 125]

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Recent Publications

• A new generic name for Tate's (1933) microtarsus group of South American mouse opossums (Marsupialia: Didelphidae).
• On the contents of Gracilinanus Gardner and Creighton, 1989, with the description of a previously unrecognized clade of small didelphid marsupials.
• Phylogenetic relationships and classification of didelphid marsupials, an extant radiation of New World metatherian mammals.
• Gracilinanus microtarsus (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae).
• Taxonomic status and phylogenetic relationships of Marmosa agilis peruana Tate, 1931 (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae), with comments on the morphological variation of Gracilinanus from central-western Brazil.

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