Name - Metachirus Burmeister 1854

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:147649 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Metachirus

• Metachirus Burmeister

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Diversite systematique des Didelphidae (Marsupialia) Europeens tertiaires.
• Systematic relationships of the living and Neocenozoic American 'opossum-like' marsupials (suborder Didelphimorphia), with comments on the classification of these and of the Cretaceous and Paleogene New World and European metatherians.
• The South American gracile mouse opossums, genus Gracilinanus Gardner and Creighton, 1989 (Marmosidae, Marsupialia): a taxonomic review with notes on general morphology and relationships.
• Phylogenetic relationships and classification of didelphid marsupials, an extant radiation of New World metatherian mammals.
• A new species of jupati, genus Metachirus Burmeister 1854 (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) for the Brazilian Amazon.

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