Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
Reference for:
Monodelphis brevicaudata
Source(s):
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Nowak, Ronald M.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1991-01-01 / 1991-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Walker's Mammals of the World, vol. 1, 5th ed.
Page(s):
1629
Publisher:
The Johns Hopkins UniversityPress
Publication Place:
Baltimore and London
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-3970-X/
Notes:
Reference for:
Monodelphis brevicaudata
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Monodelphis brevicaudata
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2
Page(s):
2142
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Monodelphis brevicaudata
Monodelphis brevicaudata: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
South America
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Monodelphis brevicaudata: Comments
Comment:
Comments: Reviewed by Voss et al. (2001), who restricted the name to populations in the Guiana Region of northern South America. The name orinoci (Thomas) has been applied to populations in the Venezuelan Llanos north and west of the Orinoco by several authors (e.g., Reig et al., 1977; Linares, 1998). Apparently, that population lacks a name