Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Mexican mouse opossum FAMILY - Didelphidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Marmosa mexicana mayensis REFERENCES - 2, 3 and 9 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference No Valid or Questionable Record 6 Common: high density, likely to be seen in many places 4 - Comments on Status 4* locally common District Reference Belize 2 Cayo 2 Corozal 2 Orange Walk 2 Stann Creek 2 Toledo 2 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Collected as voucher February 7 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve Collected as voucher March 7 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher December 7 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary Permanent 5 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Collected as voucher February 8 Government land Collected as voucher November 7 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve Collected as voucher March 7 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher December 7 Hydrologic Association Reference New River 8 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 7 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 7 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 7 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 5 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 8 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 7 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 7 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 7 Subtropical moist 7 Subtropical moist 8 Subtropical moist 7 General Distribution Comments 7* ROM Georgeville; Rockstone Pond; Augustine, Central Farm. 8* LSU Hillbank 2* Voucher specimen from Bokowina; M. m. mayensis found in all districts, M. m. mexicana in southern part of country, probably Toledo District only. References 1 McCarthy, T. J. 1993. Checklist: Mammals of Belize. BAS Newsletter 25 (2-3). 2 Hall, E. R. 1981. Mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley & Sons. New York. 1:15-16 3 Wilson, D. E., D. M. Reeder. 1993. Mammal Species of the World, a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Second ed. Smithsonian Inst. p.18 4 Emmons, L. H. 1990. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, a field guide. University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London. p.25 5 Rabinowitz, A.; B. G. Nottingham, Jr. 1989. Mammal species richness and relative abundance of small mammals in a subtropical wet forest of Central America. Mammalia V. 53, No. 2, pp.217-226 6 Meerman, J. C. 1993. Mammals of the Shipstern Nature Reserve. Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 2:11, pp.83-85 7 ROM. 1995. Collections data from mammal department, Royal Ontario Museum. 8 LSU Museum of Natural Science, Belize collection. August 31, 1995. Curator: Mark S. Hafner. 9 Alonso-Mejía, A. and R.A. Medellín. 1992. Marmosa mexicana. Mammalian Species. No.421. pp.1-4. American Society of Mammalogists.
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