Marmosa (Micoureus) germana Thomas, 1904

Voss, Robert S., 2022, An Annotated Checklist Of Recent Opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2022 (455), pp. 1-77 : 17

Marmosa (Micoureus) germana Thomas, 1904

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: BMNH 80.5 .6.77, the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of a subadult female collected at Sarayacu (1.73° S, 77.48° W; ca. 700 m) on the Río Bobonaza , Pastaza province, Ecuador .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Marmosa germana has been collected at scattered localities in the Amazonian lowlands of southeastern Colombia (Caquetá), eastern Ecuador (Orellana, Pastaza), and northeastern Peru (Loreto, north of the Amazon) (Voss and Giarla, 2021: fig. 2).

REMARKS: This species was long considered a subspecies or synonym of Marmosa regina (e.g., by Gardner and Creighton, 2008a). Diagnostic morphological characters, taxonomic comparisons, and phylogenetic relationships were discussed by Voss and Giarla (2021). As currently recognized, this species contains at least two cytochrome b haplogroups that might represent distinct taxa (Voss et al., 2020), but too few specimens are available to assess the constancy of observed phenotypic differences.