Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - South American mouse opossum FAMILY - Didelphidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Marmosa robinsoni ruatanica REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 6 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Common: high density, likely to be seen in many places 4 - Comments on Status 4* locally common District Reference Cayo 5 Stann Creek 2 Toledo 2 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Collected as voucher February 5 Town or Village, see comments. Collected as voucher Dry season 5 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher March 5 Vaca Forest Reserve Collected as voucher March 5 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher December 5 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 2 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 00' to 88 10' 5 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 16 00' to 16 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 5 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 5 Subtropical moist 5 Subtropical wet 5 General Distribution Comments 5* ROM Georgeville; Chiquibul Rd.; Punta Gorda; Punta Gorda. 2* Voucher specimens from Silkgrass, Bokowina. 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. 1:14-15 3 Wilson, D. E., D. M. Reeder. 1993. Mammal Species of the World, a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Second ed. Smithsonian Inst. p.18-19 4 Emmons, L. H. 1990. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, a field guide. University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London. p.24-25. 5 ROM. 1995. Collections data from mammal department, Royal Ontario Museum. 6 O'Connell, M.A. 1983. Marmosa robinsoni. Mammalian Species. No.203. pp.1-6. American Society of Mammalogists.
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