Check List 15(1): 119-123, doi: 10.15560/15.1.119
New record of Marmosa (Stegomarmosa) andersoni Pine, 1972 (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae), a rare and endemic Peruvian marsupial
Horacio Zeballos‡, L. Humberto Cristóbal§, Sandra Arias|, Alexander Pari¶#, Kateryn Pino#¶, César E. Medina|‡ Instituto de Ciencias de la Naturaleza, Territorio y Energías Renovables, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru§ Parque Nacional Yanachaga Chemillén, Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado, Oxapampa, Peru| Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional San Agustín (MUSA), Arequipa, Peru¶ Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile# Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa (MUSA), Arequipa, Peru
Corresponding author: Kateryn Pino ( katerynpino@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Diego Astúa © 2019 Horacio Zeballos, L. Humberto Cristóbal, Sandra Arias, Alexander Pari, Kateryn Pino, César E. Medina. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Zeballos H, Cristóbal L, Arias S, Pari A, Pino K, Medina C (2019) New record of Marmosa (Stegomarmosa) andersoni Pine, 1972 (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae), a rare and endemic Peruvian marsupial. Check List 15(1): 119-123. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.1.119 |  |
Abstract
Marmosa (Stegomarmosa) andersoni Pine, 1972 is one of the rarest members of the genus Marmosa. This species is endemic to southeastern Peru and currently known from only 3 close localities in Cusco. Herein we report a new record for the species from Pasco, which extends its geographic distribution by 360 km and represents its northernmost record
Keywords
Eastern Andean forest, distribution, Peruvian mammals, range extension