Biology:Caenolestes

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Short description: Genus of marsupials


Common shrew opossums[1]
Caenolestes sangay. Foto Jorge Brito.jpg
C. sangay
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Paucituberculata
Family: Caenolestidae
Genus: Caenolestes
Thomas, 1895
Type species
Hyracodon fuliginosus
Tomes, 1863
Species
  • C. caniventer
  • C. condorensis
  • C. convelatus
  • C. fuliginosus
  • C. sangay
Synonyms
  • Hyracodon Tomes 1863 non Leidy 1856

The common shrew opossums (genus Caenolestes) are members of the family Caenolestidae. They are found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. The most recently discovered species is C. sangay.[2]

Phylogeny

Upham et al. 2019[3][4] Álvarez-Carretero et al. 2022[5][6]
Caenolestes

C. fuliginosus (Tomes 1863) (Dusky shrew opossum)

C. convelatus Anthony 1924 (Northern shrew opossum)

C. sangay Oajala-Barbour et al. 2013 (Eastern shrew opossum)

C. caniventer Anthony 1921 (Gray-bellied shrew opossum)

C. condorensis Albuja & Patterson 1996 (Andean shrew opossum)

Caenolestes

C. fuliginosus

C. sangay

C. caniventer

See also

References

  1. Template:MSW3 Paucituberculata
  2. Ojala-Barbour, R.; Pinto, C. M.; Brito, J.; Albuja, L.; Lee, T. E.; Patterson, B. D. (October 2013). "A new species of shrew-opossum (Paucituberculata: Caenolestide) with a phylogeny of extant caenolestids". Journal of Mammalogy 94 (5): 967–982. doi:10.1644/13-MAMM-A-018.1. 
  3. Upham, Nathan S.; Esselstyn, Jacob A.; Jetz, Walter (2019). "Inferring the mammal tree Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation". PLOS Biology 17 (12): e3000494. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000494. 
  4. Upham, Nathan S.; Esselstyn, Jacob A.; Jetz, Walter (2019). "DR_on4phylosCompared_linear_richCol_justScale_ownColors_withTips_80in". PLOS Biology 17 (12). doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000494. https://github.com/n8upham/MamPhy_v1/blob/master/Fig6_compare_tipDRs/DR_on4phylosCompared_linear_richCol_justScale_ownColors_withTips_80in.pdf. 
  5. Álvarez-Carretero, Sandra; Tamuri, Asif U.; Battini, Matteo; Nascimento, Fabrícia F.; Carlisle, Emily; Asher, Robert J.; Yang, Ziheng; Donoghue, Philip C.J. et al. (2022). "A species-level timeline of mammal evolution integrating phylogenomic data". Nature 602 (7896): 263–267. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04341-1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04341-1. 
  6. Álvarez-Carretero, Sandra; Tamuri, Asif U.; Battini, Matteo; Nascimento, Fabrícia F.; Carlisle, Emily; Asher, Robert J.; Yang, Ziheng; Donoghue, Philip C.J. et al. (2022). "4705sp_colours_mammal-time.tree". Nature (602): 263–267. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04341-1. https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_for_A_Species-Level_Timeline_of_Mammal_Evolution_Integrating_Phylogenomic_Data_/14885691. 

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