Marmosops (Sciophanes) carri (Allen & Chapman, 1897)

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 : 49

Marmosops (Sciophanes) carri

(Allen and Chapman, 1897)

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: AMNH 7314 /5922, the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of an adult male collected at Caparo (10.45° N, 61.33° W; ca. 80 m), Trinidad .

SYNONYMS: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Marmosops carri is known from lowland and premontane rainforest on Trinidad and Tobago, and from premontane and montane forest on the adjacent mainland of Venezuela. On the mainland, the species occurs along the Caribbean coastal cordilleras from Monagas westward to Carabobo, but it is also known from the interior Cordillera de Trujillo ; recorded elevations range from near sea level to> 2000 m (Díaz-Nieto and Voss, 2016: fig. 17).

REMARKS: For illustrations, an emended description, measurement data, and morphological comparisons with closely related species, see Díaz-Nieto and Voss (2016), who assigned Marmosops carri to the Fuscatus Group based on phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequence data previously reported by Díaz-Nieto et al. (2016b). This species was formerly regarded as an insular subspecies of M. fuscatus (e.g., by Gardner and Creighton, 2008b), but analyses of mtDNA sequence data and morphometric comparisons suggest otherwise.