The grayish mouse opossum is an unusually small opossum, measuring 20 to 35 cm 7. Tlacuatzintla je naselje u meksiku, u saveznoj drzavi veracruz, u opstini totutla prema proceni iz 2014. Phylogenetic analyses of postcranial skeletal morphology. Rodent community responses to vegetation and landscape. International journal of zoological research keywords. Tlacuatzin canescens is a poorly studied marsupial endemic to mexico. Basecompositional heterogeneity, as indicated by significant taxonomic differences in gc. Tlacuatzin canescens individuals are hosts for the chigger species eutrombicula batatas. Tlacuatzin canescens wikispecies, free species directory. Although members of family didelphidae may range from 10 g to over 2 kg, their size and physical diversity may be. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Ibarracerdena, victor sanchezcordero, pilar ibarralopez and luis i. On rencontre ce petit marsupial uniquement au mexique, pays dont il est. Rag1 is a singlecopy, intron free, proteincoding nuclear locus that has been used for phylogenetic inference in a variety of. Biological sciences biotic communities corridors ecology analysis mammals environmental aspects rivers. Noteworthy record of musonycteris harrisoni and tlacuatzin canescens pollinating a columnar cactus in westcentral mexico author. No other parasites have been recorded for this species. Special publications natural science research laboratory. Tlacuatzin canescens is a prey item for cougars and barn owls. The group consists of nearly 350 extant species, including kangaroos, koala, possums, and their relatives. Tlacuatzin canescens canescens in mammal species of the world.
Phylogenetic analyses of postcranial skeletal morphology in didelphid marsupials. These animals have fairly diverse modes of locomotion including terrestrial, arboreal, scansorial and semiaquatic. Allen, 1893 common names gray mouse opossum in english gray mouse opossum in english gray mouse opossum in english bibliographic references. Noteworthy record of musonycteris harrisoni and tlacuatzin. In western mexico, gray mouse opossums tlacuatzin canescens typically are not only in tropical deciduous and semideciduous woodlands but also in croplands and orchards. Museum of texas tech university this publication is available free of charge in pdf format from the website of the natural sciences research laboratory, museum of texas tech university nsrl. This study assessed the occurrence of sexual size dimorphism ssd and sexual shape dimorphism sshd in the skull and mandible of representatives of most species within the 3 orders of living new world opossums, didelphimorphia, paucituberculata, and microbiotheria, using geometric morphometrics. This reduced rate heterogeneity can in turn be explained by the fact that dmp1 has considerably more sites free to vary than does irbp. Demographic features, distribution, and habitat selection of the gray mouse opossum tlacuatzin canescens in colima, mexico. In this work, we studied the pollination biology and the breeding system of harrisia portoricensis, an island columnar cactus, to test for the presence of inbreeding and inbreeding depression. Noteworthy record of musonycteris harrisoni and tlacuatzin canescens pollinating a columnar cactus in westcentral mexico international journal of zoological research, vol. Demographic features, distribution, and habitat selection.
Gatlin iii 2017 assessing the nutritional value of an. We extend a recently developed method for constructing ecological networks to infer potential biotic interactions between species and to also include environmental factors, in particular land cover, thus permitting a simultaneous analysis of the interaction between environment and species distribution as well as inter. A close phylogenetic position of the greyish mouse opossum, tlacuatzin canescens formely marmosa canescens with species of the genus marmosa and subgenus micoureus is also supported, as has been found in previous studies combining molecules and morphology flores, 2009. Great american interchange wikipedia republished wiki 2. Since early in history, man has attempted to describe his environment. Tlacuatzin canescens wikipedia, a enciclopedia livre. E a unica especie descrita para o genero tlacuatzin referencias. Read demographic features, distribution, and habitat selection of the gray mouse opossum tlacuatzin canescens in colima, mexico, acta theriologica on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Pdf noteworthy record of musonycteris harrisoni and. The great american interchange was an important late cenozoic paleozoogeographic event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from north america via central america to south america and vice versa, as the volcanic isthmus of panama rose up from the sea floor and bridged the formerly separated continents. Marmosa mexicana, tlacuatzin canescens, caluromys derbianus. Standard metabolism, body temperature, and surface areas. The migration peaked dramatically around three million years ma ago during the.
Marsupials are an old lineage thought to have diverged from early therian mammals some 160 million. Tlacuatzin canescens in mammal species of the world. The study of animal communities in secondary forests and specifically in the. Didelphidae is the largest family of marsupials in the americas and the only family in order didelphimorphia. Ginklasipika han iucn an species komo diri gud kababarakan. The grayish mouse opossum tlacuatzin canescens is a species of opossum endemic to mexico. Metacommunity structure of small mammals in western mexico. Within a total of 32 species that comprise a wide taxonomic range table 1, we used two different methods 16 species each for creating illumina pairedend shotgun libraries. We conducted markrecapture studies in january 20032007 and 2010 in coastal, northern, and central colima, mexico. A mandible recovered from an owl pellet suggests t. An tlacuatzin canescens in nahilalakip ha genus nga tlacuatzin, ngan familia nga didelphidae. Different patterns of selection on the nuclear genes irbp. This publication is available free of charge in pdf format from the website of the natural sciences research laboratory, museum of texas tech university nsrl.
Molecular and morphological evidences of diversification in the grayish mouse opossum tlacuatzin canescens. Bulletin of the american museum of natural history, no. Noteworthy record of musonycteris harrisoni and tlacuatzin canescens pollinating a columnar cactus in westcentral mexico. Due to a 12 bp deletion in the sequence from tlacuatzin canescens, primer den was replaced with denr638 for this taxon. Despite their tremendous importance from both ecological and conservation perspectives, the communities associated with early successional stages have got little attention from the scientific community, being recently recognized as the forgotten stage of forest succession swanson et al. As a marsupial, the female opossum has a reproductive system that includes a bifurcated vagina, a divided uterus and a marsupium, which is her pouch. American opossums and opossums articles encyclopedia of life. The young are therefore born at a very early stage.
These images include two genera and four species described new since wilson and reeder 2005. As a part of an ongoing project to inventory the metazoan parasites of mexican mammals, 4 specimens of 2 species of mouse opossums 2 tlacuatzin canescens allen, 1893 and 2 marmosa mexicana. The average estrous cycle of the opossum is about 28 days. Because the maximum size limit for filed pdf documents is 10 mb, it may be necessary, at times, to split a pdf into multiple documents in order to file a large document. Spanish and english vernacular names of mammals of north. Personality correlates with contextual plasticity in a free living, longlived seabird. Each year, five grids, established in areas of thick vegetation within a mosaic of habitats, had 100. Opossums do possess a placenta, but it is shortlived, simple in structure, and, unlike that of placental mammals, not fully functional. Opossums originated in south america and entered north america in the great american interchange following the connection of. Mammal species of the world a taxonomic and geographic reference. Basecompositional heterogeneity in the rag1 locus among. An tlacuatzin canescens in uska species han didelphimorphia nga syahan ginhulagway ni joel asaph allen hadton 1893. Tlacuatzin canescens canescens wikispecies, free species.
Marsupials or metatherians are a group of mammals that are distinct in giving birth to young at early stages of development and in having a prolonged investment in lactation. Special publications natural science research laboratory texas. Cranial sexual dimorphism in new world marsupials and a. Allen, 1893 old web site least concern media in category tlacuatzin canescens the following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total. The names of living organisms serve two essential purposes.
89 1188 763 867 778 393 480 386 1308 202 952 492 583 208 763 1625 840 1524 1416 481 1252 709 108 906 1147 1312 278 521 922 730 753 375 331 1466 1308 55