Didelphis sp.

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 : 7

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20363/BZB-2021.70.1.001
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:67213318-C4D5-4D11-A0F4-AEF7B416CA39
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15786422
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7A5D879B-E403-FFCF-FC98-FB416C8BFED8
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Didelphis sp.
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Didelphis sp.

MZUT T458 View Materials (2643); partial skin; unsexed; Villa Cortina?; II/1891;

MZUT T459 (MACUT 7734); skull; unsexed ad.; Brazil; no date; donation by Alfonso Bovero;

MZUT T460 (MACUT 7735); skull; unsexed ad.; Brazil; no date; donation by Alfonso Bovero;

MZUT T461 View Materials ( MACUT 10036 ); skull; male ad.; Brazil; 25/X/1921; donation by Alfonso Bovero;

MZUT T462 (MACUT 10037); skull; unsexed ad.; Brazil; 1921; donation by Alfonso Bovero;

MZUT T463 View Materials ( MACUT 10038 ); skull; unsexed subad.; Brazil; IV/1918; donation by Alfonso Bovero;

MZUT T464 View Materials ( MACUT 10039 ); skull; male ad.; Brazil; 28/IX/1921; collected by Dr. Y. Karimi;

MZUT T465 View Materials ( MACUT 10040 ); skull; unsexed juv.; Brazil; 04/XI/1924.

Remarks: The specimen MZUT T 458 is from the genus Didelphis , and since it presents dark face and black ears, it could be identified as D. aurita , if it proves to come from Atlantic Forest of Brazil or D. marsupialis if it came from Amazonian Forests.

The specimens from MZUT T459 to MZUT T465 present skulls from the genus Didelphis and by their measurements (see Table 1 View Table 1 ) they are probably specimens from black-eared opossums, D. aurita or D. marsupialis (see Cerqueira & Lemos 2000).