Didelphis aurita Wied-Neuwied, 1826

Ghiraldi, Luca, Carmignotto, Ana Paula, Tosetto, Vera, Ingleby, Sandy & Eldridge, Mark D. B., 2021, Revised catalogue of monotremes and marsupials in the historic mammal collection housed at Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali of Torino, Italy, Bonn zoological Bulletin 70 (1), pp. 1-14 : 6

BRAZILIAN COMMON OPOSSUM Didelphis aurita Wied-Neuwied, 1826 (LC)

MZUT T434 (338); mount; unsexed ad.; near Rio de Janeiro ( Brazil); 1839; Antonio Caffer expedition;

MZUT T434 (MACUT 338); skeleton; MZUT T435 (MACUT 7736); skull; unsexed ad.; Brasil; 15/V/1919; donation by Alfonso Bovero.

Remarks: In the MZUT catalogue the specimen MZUT T434 was reported as Didelphis albiventris , but since it presents dark face and ears, it was redetermined as D. aurita . The MZUT T435 was undetermined. See also the skull measurements in Table 1 .