Philander Tiedemann 1808
Creators: name: Gardner, Alfred L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Didelphimorphia
Didelphidae
Philander

description: <i>Philander</i> Tiedemann, 1808. Allgemeine Zool., Mensch Säugthiere, Landshut, 1:426. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Philander virginianus</i> Tiedemann, 1808, by subsequent designation (Hershkovitz, 1949a). SYNONYMS: <i>Hylothylax</i> Cabrera, 1919; <i>Metachirops</i> Matschie, 1916; <i>Philander</i> Gray, 1843 (based on <i>Philander</i> Brisson, 1762); <i>Sarigua</i> Muirhead, 1919 (part). COMMENTS: Pine (1973) used <i>Metachirops</i> for this genus, as did Hall (1981), Husson (1978), and Corbet and Hill (1980; but not 1991 when they used <i>Philander).</i> <i>Philander</i> Tiedemann is used here as the correct generic name because, as Hershkovitz (1949«; 1981) pointed out, <i>Philander virginianus</i> Tiedemann was a replacement name for <i>Didelphis opossum</i> Linnaeus. Hershkovitz (1976) designated the female illustrated by Seba (1734) as lectotype of D. <i>opossum</i> and, thereby, also making Seba's specimen the lectotype of <i>Philander virginianus.</i> Therefore, Husson's (1978) attempt to synonymize <i>Philander</i> Tiedemann under <i>Didelphis</i> Linnaeus by synonymizing <i>P. virginianus</i> Tiedemann with <i>Didelphis virginiana</i> Kerr was too late and is invalid. If Husson's (1978) action had preceded Hershkovitz's (1976), <i>Metachirops</i> would be the correct name for this genus.
description: Published as part of <i>Alfred L. Gardner, 1993, Order Didelphimorphia, pp. 15-23 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353070
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