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.
Highlights
Previamente han sido registrados ocho especies de didélfidos en Honduras: Philander opossum, Marmosa mexicana True (1888), M. robinsoni Goldman (1911), Didelphis marsupialis, Chironectes minimus, Caluromys derbianus, Marmosa alstoni, Goodwin (1942), y Didelphis virginiana, Gardner (1973) citado por Hall (1981)
Research Journal of the Costa Rican Distance Education University (ISSN: 1659-4266) Vol 7(2): 337-339, Diciembre, 2015 desde el sur de México hacia sur América, sin embargo aún no se registra en Guatemala (McCarthy & Pérez, 2006), El Salvador (Owen & Giron, 2012) ni Belice (Reid, 1997)
Summary
Previamente han sido registrados ocho especies de didélfidos en Honduras: Philander opossum, Marmosa mexicana True (1888), M. robinsoni Goldman (1911), Didelphis marsupialis, Chironectes minimus, Caluromys derbianus, Marmosa alstoni, Goodwin (1942), y Didelphis virginiana, Gardner (1973) citado por Hall (1981). RESUMEN: Se adiciona el primer registro del marsupial Metachirus nudicaudatus para Honduras y segundo para Centro América Nuclear, basado en dos especímenes, un macho y una hembra.
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