标题：Phylogenetic relationships and classification of didelphid marsupials, an extant radiation of New World metatherian mammals. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 322)
期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
印刷版ISSN：0003-0090
电子版ISSN：1937-3546
出版年度：2009
卷号：1
出版社：American Museum of Natural History
摘要：This report summarizes a decade of morphological and molecular research on the phylogenetic relationships of didelphid marsupials (opossums), a substantially intact radiation of New World metatherian mammals. We review the comparative morphology of Recent opossums, emphasizing those anatomical systems from which taxonomically useful information is available for the majority of living genera and species, namely the integument, cranium, and dentition. Morphological similarities and differences among didelphids and other plesiomorphic marsupials (caenolestids, microbiotheriids, dasyurids, and peramelids) are also described. These observations, representing evolved differences in diverse functional-morphological systems, together with karyotypic information gleaned from the literature, provide the basis for coding 129 phylogenetic characters that we scored for 44 ingroup and seven outgroup taxa. Published information about the size, internal organization, chromosomal location, and physiolo...
