Gracilinanus marica ( Thomas, 1898 )

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Gracilinanus marica ( Thomas, 1898)

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY: BMNH 98.5 .15.1, the holotype by original designation, consists of the skin and skull of an adult male collected on the “Rio Abbaregas” (= Río Albarregas : 8.58° N, 71.15° W; 1630 m), Mérida state, Venezuela .

SYNONYMS: perijae Hershkovitz, 1992.

DISTRIBUTION: As currently understood, Gracilinanus marica occurs in lower montane forests (between about 1400 and 2200 m) of the Venezuelan Andes, the Caribbean coastal cordilleras of northern Venezuela, the Serranía de Perijá of northeastern Colombia, and the Cordillera Oriental near Bogotá.

REMARKS: This species has received no substantive revisionary attention and its status with respect to Gracilinanus dryas is currently uncertain (see above). Phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence data suggest that G. marica and G. emiliae are sister species ( Díaz-Nieto et al., 2016a; Teta and DíazNieto, 2019).