First record brown four-eyed opossum marsupial in Honduras ( Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve )

First record brown four-eyed opossum marsupial in Honduras ( Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve )

Authors

  • Julio Enrique Mérida Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
  • Gustavo Adolfo Cruz Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22458/urj.v7i2.1163

Keywords:

Brown four-eyed Opossum, Didelphidae, Marsupialia, Nuclear Central America.

Abstract

It is adding a new record of marsupial to Honduras, Metachirus nudicaudatus, and the second record to Nuclear Central America, based in two specimens, male and female. These increments to nine species and six the generas of didelphids for the country. The female without a pouch that it is present in other Honduras didelphids, execpt in marmosa. Specimens come from the community of Baltiltuk, Platano River Biosphera Reserve (RBRP), Gracias a Dios Department. There are discrepancies in the litterature about its distribution in México and Central America, some authors mention its from Honduras, but without catalogue record, hightligthin the importance of the record of the specie.

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Published

2015-12-15

How to Cite

Mérida, J. E., & Cruz, G. A. (2015). First record brown four-eyed opossum marsupial in Honduras ( Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve ). UNED Research Journal, 7(2), 337–339. https://doi.org/10.22458/urj.v7i2.1163

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