Acrobates Desmarest 1818

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Autores principales: P. Aplin, Kenneth, N. Armstrong, Kyle, M. Aplin, Lucy, Jenkins, Paula, Ingleby, Sandra, Donnellan, Stephen C.
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author P. Aplin, Kenneth
N. Armstrong, Kyle
M. Aplin, Lucy
Jenkins, Paula
Ingleby, Sandra
Donnellan, Stephen C.
author_facet P. Aplin, Kenneth
N. Armstrong, Kyle
M. Aplin, Lucy
Jenkins, Paula
Ingleby, Sandra
Donnellan, Stephen C.
contents <p><b><i>Acrobates</i> Desmarest, 1818</b></p><p><i>Ascobates</i> Anon. in Knight, C. (1839) <i>Penny Encyclopaedia</i>. London. Vol. 14, No. 907, p. 454. [error for <i>Acrobates</i>].</p><p><i>Cercoptenus</i> Gloger, C. W. L. (1841). <i>Gemeinnütziges Hand- und Hilfsbuch der Naturgeschichte</i>. Fur gebildete leser aller Stände. Bd I. Breslau: Schulz and Co.</p><p><b>Type species.</b> <i>Didelphis pygmaeus</i> Shaw, 1794 by original monotypy.</p><p><b>Generic diagnosis.</b> Differing externally from <i>Distoechurus</i>, the only other genus of acrobatid possums, in the possession of a patagial membrane between the elbow and ankle joints. Beck <i>et al.</i> (2022) list the following cranial and dental features as diagnosing <i>Acrobates</i> from <i>Distoechurus</i>: differing cranially in having a proportionally larger and more inflated neurocranium, a proportionally shorter and deeper rostrum, a vertically expanded sphenorbital fissure; a deep sulcus that houses the transverse canal vein extends laterally from the carotid canal and is floored ventrally by a strut of the alisphenoid vs by the posterior part of the pterygoid in <i>Distoechurus</i>, a narrower mandibular angular process; differing dentally in having P 3 relatively large and subequal in size to P 1 (reduced in <i>Distoechurus</i>), M 1-2 square rather than triangular, with the protocone positioned lingual to the paracone, and with more prominent buccal cingula, M 3 relatively large, more than one half the occlusal area of M 2 (Fig. 6).</p>
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spellingShingle Acrobates Desmarest 1818
P. Aplin, Kenneth
N. Armstrong, Kyle
M. Aplin, Lucy
Jenkins, Paula
Ingleby, Sandra
Donnellan, Stephen C.
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Diprotodontia
Acrobatidae
Acrobates
<p><b><i>Acrobates</i> Desmarest, 1818</b></p><p><i>Ascobates</i> Anon. in Knight, C. (1839) <i>Penny Encyclopaedia</i>. London. Vol. 14, No. 907, p. 454. [error for <i>Acrobates</i>].</p><p><i>Cercoptenus</i> Gloger, C. W. L. (1841). <i>Gemeinnütziges Hand- und Hilfsbuch der Naturgeschichte</i>. Fur gebildete leser aller Stände. Bd I. Breslau: Schulz and Co.</p><p><b>Type species.</b> <i>Didelphis pygmaeus</i> Shaw, 1794 by original monotypy.</p><p><b>Generic diagnosis.</b> Differing externally from <i>Distoechurus</i>, the only other genus of acrobatid possums, in the possession of a patagial membrane between the elbow and ankle joints. Beck <i>et al.</i> (2022) list the following cranial and dental features as diagnosing <i>Acrobates</i> from <i>Distoechurus</i>: differing cranially in having a proportionally larger and more inflated neurocranium, a proportionally shorter and deeper rostrum, a vertically expanded sphenorbital fissure; a deep sulcus that houses the transverse canal vein extends laterally from the carotid canal and is floored ventrally by a strut of the alisphenoid vs by the posterior part of the pterygoid in <i>Distoechurus</i>, a narrower mandibular angular process; differing dentally in having P 3 relatively large and subequal in size to P 1 (reduced in <i>Distoechurus</i>), M 1-2 square rather than triangular, with the protocone positioned lingual to the paracone, and with more prominent buccal cingula, M 3 relatively large, more than one half the occlusal area of M 2 (Fig. 6).</p>
title Acrobates Desmarest 1818
topic Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Diprotodontia
Acrobatidae
Acrobates
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