Thylamys Gray, 1843

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 : 7-8

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Genus Thylamys Gray, 1843 View in CoL

ELEGANT FAT-TAILED MOUSE OPOSSUM Thyl-

amys elegans (Waterhouse, 1839) (LC)

MZUT T455 View Materials (735); skin; unsexed ad.; Valparaiso, Chile; 1845; purchased by G.A. Frank ;

MZUT T456 (840); skin; unsexed ad.; Chile; 1849; Pi- collet d’Hermillon;

MZUT T457 (2935); skin; male ad.; Quilpué, Chile; no date; donation by Enrico Festa (the specimen was orig- inally part of Francisco Videla collection).

Remarks: Auguste Picollet d’Hermillon was the Gen-

eral Consul of Kingdom of Sardinia in Valparaiso, Chile.

UNDETERMINED SPECIMENS

Didelphis sp.

MZUT T458 View Materials (2643); partial skin; unsexed; Villa Corti- na?; 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.; Bra- zil; 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.; Bra- zil; 04/XI/1924.

Remarks: The specimen MZUT T 458 is from the ge-

nus 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) they are probably specimens

from black-eared opossums, D. aurita or D. marsupialis (see Cerqueira & Lemos 2000).

Didelphis cf. imperfecta

MZUT T466 (332); mount; female ad.; Cayenne (French Guyana); 1810; purchased in Paris by Franco Andrea Bonelli;

MZUT T467 (333); mount; unsexed juv.; Cayenne (French Guyana); 1822; from Mr. Banon.

Remarks: The specimens MZUT T466 and 467, previously cited as D. marsupialis , could not be identified at species level due to the faded coloration of the skins. But since they present whiter faces, they could be, instead, representatives of D. imperfecta .