TWO NEW SPECIES OF PHILANDER (DIDELPHIMORPHIA, DIDELPHIDAE) FROM NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA

Autor:	Roger Pérez-Hernández, Daniel Lew, Jacint Ventura
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Morphometrics River delta geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology Floodplain biology biology.organism_classification Geography Environmental protection Opossum Genetics Animal Science and Zoology Taxonomy (biology) Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Nature and Landscape Conservation
Zdroj:	Journal of Mammalogy. 87:224-237
ISSN:	1545-1542 0022-2372
DOI:	10.1644/05-mamm-a-065r2.1
Popis:	The taxonomy of gray four-eyed opossums, genus Philander, from northern South America is reviewed by means of comparative morphological and morphometric analyses. Two hundred eighteen specimens belonging to the following geographic samples were used: P. opossum opossum from French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname; P. o. fuscogriseus from Central America and Colombia; P. andersoni from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela; P. opossum from the Orinoco River delta (Venezuela); P. opossum from western Venezuela and eastern Colombia; and P. opossum from central Venezuela. Results obtained allow us to describe 2 new Philander species, one of which occurs in the floodplains of the Orinoco River delta and Paria Gulf (Venezuela), and the other of which is distributed in lowlands and uplands at the northern border of the Guiana Shield in Venezuela, as
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