Check List 12(1): e19429, doi: 10.15560/12.1.1827
First record of genus Cryptonanus (Didelphimorphia) in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
expand article infoAna Cláudia Delciellos‡, Maria Carolina Viana§, Márcia Aguieiras|, Fernando Chiaradia, Denise de Alemar Gaspar
‡ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil§ Instituto Nacional de Câncer José de Alencar – INCa, Centro de Pesquisa / Divisão de Genética, Brazil| Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil¶ Faunística Estudos Ambientais, Brazil

Corresponding author: Ana Cláudia Delciellos ( delciellos@biologia.ufrj.br )

© 2017 Ana Cláudia Delciellos, Maria Viana, Márcia Aguieiras, Fernando Chiaradia, Denise Gaspar.
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Citation: Delciellos A, Chiaradia F, Viana M, Aguieiras M, Gaspar D (2016) First record of genus Cryptonanus (Didelphimorphia) in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Check List 12(1): 1827. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.1.1827
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Abstract
Here we report the first record of genus Cryptonanus in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. One specimen (MZUSP35409) was captured in an Atlantic Forest fragment and was identified by morphological characters and molecular analysis using cytochrome‑b (MT-CYB) and von Willebrand Factor (VWF). Phylogenetic reconstructions based on VWF sequences positioned our specimen into the genus Cryptonanus, and the shortest genetic distance of MT-CYB was estimated between our specimen and an undescribed specimen from Piauí. Our record increases the genus’ geographic range approximately 350 km from Cotia and Ibiúna municipalities, São Paulo. The genus Cryptonanus remains taxonomically poorly understood.
Keywords
Atlantic Forest; Didelphidae; molecular analysis; MT-CYB; VWF