Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum
Thylamys elegans (Waterhouse, 1839)
Also calledElegante Fettschwanzbeutelratte (deu) · Marmosa Elegante (spa) · Opossum élégant (fra) · Opossum-souris (fra) · Opossum-souris élégant (fra) · Südliches Mausoppussum (deu) · Yaca (spa) · oravaopossumi (fin) · tłustogonek wytworny (pol) · vačice chilská (ces) · Изящный мышиный опоссум (rus) · エレガントオブトマウスオポッサム (jpn)
First described in: Zool. H.M.S. "Beagle," Mammalia p.95
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Remarks: Auguste Picollet d’Hermillon was the General Consul of Kingdom of Sardinia in Valparaiso, Chile.
Revised catalogue of monotremes and marsupials in the historic mammal collection housed at Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali of Torino, Italy
materials_examined
MZUT T 455 (735); skin; unsexed ad.; Valparaiso, Chile; 1845; purchased by G. A. Frank; MZUT T 456 (840); skin; unsexed ad.; Chile; 1849; Picollet d’Hermillon; MZUT T 457 (2935); skin; male ad.; Quilpué, Chile; no date; donation by Enrico Festa (the specimen was originally part of Francisco Videla collection).
Revised catalogue of monotremes and marsupials in the historic mammal collection housed at Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali of Torino, Italy
discussion
Discussion: Reviewed by Palma (1997, Mammalian Species 572; Palma’s concept of the species further restricted by Solari (2003). The name hortenis Reid, 1837, is a nomen nudum.
Order Didelphimorphia
distribution
Distribution: Chile, on Pacific side of Andes between 32 ° and 38 ° S.
Order Didelphimorphia
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Every page naming Thylamys elegans in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2439908.