Abstract

MERIDA, Julio Enrique  and  CRUZ, Gustavo Adolfo. Primer registro del marsupial Metachirusnudicaudatus en Honduras (Reserva Biósfera Río Plátano). Cuadernos de Investigación UNED [online]. 2015, vol.7, n.2, pp.337-339. ISSN 1659-4266.

It is adding a new record of marsupial to Honduras, Metachirusnudicaudatus, 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.

Keywords : Brown four-eyed Opossum; Didelphidae; Marsupialia; Nuclear Central America.

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