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Didelphis (large American opossum)
Taxonomy
Didelphis was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. Its type is Didelphis marsupialis.
It was corrected as Didelphys by Rovereto (1914).
It was assigned to Bestiae by Linnaeus (1758); to Marsupialia by Illiger (1811); to Didelphina by Gray (1825); to Marsupialia by Leidy (1860); to Didelphyidae by Lambe (1908); to Didelphini by Hooker (1986) and Patton et al. (1996); to Didelphinae by Wilson and Reeder (2005); to Boreosphenida by Martin and Rauhut (2005); and to Didelphidae by Lydekker (1894), Hay (1902), Rovereto (1914), Sherman (1952), Martin and Webb (1974), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Springer et al. (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Ladaveze and Muizon (2010) and Albright et al. (2019).
It was corrected as Didelphys by Rovereto (1914).
It was assigned to Bestiae by Linnaeus (1758); to Marsupialia by Illiger (1811); to Didelphina by Gray (1825); to Marsupialia by Leidy (1860); to Didelphyidae by Lambe (1908); to Didelphini by Hooker (1986) and Patton et al. (1996); to Didelphinae by Wilson and Reeder (2005); to Boreosphenida by Martin and Rauhut (2005); and to Didelphidae by Lydekker (1894), Hay (1902), Rovereto (1914), Sherman (1952), Martin and Webb (1974), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Springer et al. (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Ladaveze and Muizon (2010) and Albright et al. (2019).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1758 | Didelphis Linnaeus p. 54 |
1811 | Didelphys Illiger p. 75 |
1825 | Didelphis Gray p. 340 |
1860 | Didelphys Leidy p. 116 |
1894 | Didelphys Lydekker p. 271 |
1902 | Didelphis Hay p. 570 |
1908 | Didelphys Lambe |
1914 | Didelphys Rovereto p. 85 |
1952 | Didelphis Sherman p. 87 |
1974 | Didelphis Martin and Webb p. 54 |
1980 | Didelphis Kurten and Anderson p. 101 |
1986 | Didelphis Hooker p. 215 |
1994 | Didelphis Springer et al. p. 86 |
1996 | Didelphis Patton et al. p. 4 |
1997 | Didelphis McKenna and Bell |
2005 | Didelphis Martin and Rauhut |
2005 | Didelphis Wilson and Reeder |
2010 | Didelphis Ladaveze and Muizon |
2019 | Didelphis Albright et al. p. 153 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Didelphis Linnaeus 1758 [large American opossum]
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Didelphis albiventris Lund 1840 [white-eared opossum]
Didelphis aurita Wied-Neuwied 1826 [Big-eared opossum]
†Didelphis crucialis Ameghino 1904
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Invalid names: Hyperdidelphys brachyodonta Reig 1952 [synonym]
Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus 1758 [common opossum]
†Didelphis solimoensis Couzzol et al. 2006
Didelphis virginiana Kerr 1792 [Virginia opossum]
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Didelphis virginiana californica Bennett 1833
Didelphis virginiana pigra Bangs 1898
Didelphis virginiana yucatanensis Allen 1901
Didelphis virginiana virginiana Kerr 1792
†Didelphys abrupta Ameghino 1904
†Didelphys biforata Ameghino 1904
†Didelphys chapalmalensis Ameghino 1908
†Didelphys grandaeva Ameghino 1889
†Didelphys inexpectata Ameghino 1889
†Didelphys juga Ameghino 1889
†Didelphys lujanensis Ameghino 1889
†Didelphys perplana Ameghino 1904
†Didelphys tracheia Rovereto 1914
†Didelphys triforata Ameghino 1889
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available