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Taxonomic Checklist of Living American Marsupials

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American and Australasian Marsupials

Abstract

An updated checklist for living American marsupial species (orders Didelphimorphia, Microbiotheria, and Paucituberculata) is presented here. It includes 22 genera and 137 species, a figure slightly larger than previous, recent compilations. For each species, a reference to its type locality and a brief description of its overall distribution are included. Taxonomic comments were reduced to a minimum, mostly for those taxa that were reviewed in the last 5 years and that were not included in other recent compilations. Additional hypotheses on which taxa are most likely to undergo taxonomic changes soon and suggestions on some geographic areas that should be explored in search of new species are also included.

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Astúa, D., Cherem, J.J., Teta, P. (2022). Taxonomic Checklist of Living American Marsupials. In: Cáceres, N.C., Dickman, C.R. (eds) American and Australasian Marsupials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88800-8_31-1

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