Didelphinae

Didelphinae

Didelphinae

Subfamily of marsupials

The Didelphinae are a subfamily of opossums consisting of 15 genera and 123 species.[2][3][4] Specimens have been collected throughout the Americas, but are predominant in South and Central America.[5]

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Some sources call this subfamily the "American opossums",[2][6] while others use that term for the whole family of opossums, Didelphidae.[1] The term may be redundant, though, since all opossums are native to the Americas, while their distant Australian taxonomic relatives, in the suborder Phalangeriformes are referred to as possums in Australia.

Classification

See also: List of didelphimorphs

References

  1. [1]
    "ITIS - Report: Didelphinae".
  2. [2]
    "Namebank Record Detail".
  3. [3]
    "ION: Index to Organism Names".
  4. [4]
    "Micro*scope - version 6.0 - March, 2006". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-04-06.
  5. [5]
    "Didelphinae | Taxonomy Browser | BOLDSYSTEMS".
  6. [6]
    http://www.eol.org/pages/2844138%5B%5D
  7. [7]
    Juan A. Martínez-Lanfranco , David Flores , J. Pablo Jayat , and Guillermo D'Elía, A new species of lutrine opossum, genus Lutreolina Thomas (Didelphidae), from the South American Yungas, Source: Journal of Mammalogy, 95(2):225-240. 2014.

Further reading

  • Les marsupiaux du Tertiaire d'Europe.
  • Phylogenetic studies on didelphid marsupials II. Nonmolecular data and new IRBP sequences: Separate and combined analyses of didelphine relationships with denser taxon sampling.
  • New didelphine marsupials from La Venta fauna (Miocene) of Colombia, South America.
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