UMA CONVERSA COM RONALD PINE - A conversation with Ronald Pine.

In this LINK You can see the interresting conversation I have with Ronald Pine about M. rubida (= M. americana)            
First  part - 2 years ago and Second part -1 year ago.                 LINK

RON PINE                               MY TRIBUTE TO HIM  for his work on Monodelphis

Before the existence of my "Revision of the genus Monodelphis", the only author who published works dealing with Monodelphis was   Ronald Pine.     "He opened the doors for me" - See below the substantial list of his works:

I made this based on a photo from Facebook

- PINE, R. H.,1973, Mammals (exclusive of bats) of Belém, Pará, Brazil. Acta Amaz.3(2):47-79. ( I have used some information from this work, in my Revision)

- PINE, R. H. 1975. A new species of Monodelphis (Mammalia:Marsupialia: Didelphidae) from Bolivia. Mammalia, 39(2): 320-322. ( the description of  Monodelphis kunsi )

- PINE, R. H. 1976. Monodelphis umbristriata (A. de Miranda- Ribeiro) is a distinct species of opossum. J. Mammal. 57(4): 785-787.

- PINE, R. H. 1977. Monodelphis iheringi (Thomas) is a recognizable species of Brazilian opossum (Mammalia: Marsupialia:Didelphidae). Mammalia, 41(2): 235-237.

- PINE R. H. & ABRAVAYA, J. P.,1978. Notes on the Brazilian opossum Monodelphis scalops (Thomas) (Mammalia: Marsupialia: Didelphidae) Mammalia, 42(3): 379-382.

- PINE, R. H. 1979. Taxonomic notes on Monodelphis dimidiata itatiaye (Miranda-Ribeiro), Monodelphis domestica (Wagner) and Monodelphis maraxina (Thomas) (Mammalia: Marsupialia: Didelphidae). Mammalia, 43(4): 495-499.

- PINE, R. H. & HANDLEY. Jr.,C. O. 1984. A review of the Amazonia short-tailed opossum Monodelphis emiliae (Thomas) Mammalia, 48(2): 239-245.

- PINE, R. H., DALBY, P.L. & MATSON, J.O.  1985. Ecology, postnatal development, morphometrics, and taxonomic status of  the short–tailed opossum, Monodelphis dimidiata, an apparently semelparous annual marsupial. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 54, 6, 195–231.

- PINE, R. H. & HANDLEY. Jr.,C. O. 2008 Genus Monodelphis Burnett, 1830. In: Mammals of South America, Volume 1: Marsupials, Xenarthrans,Shrews, and Bats. Ed. Gardner.

- VOSS, R. S., PINE, R. H.,  SOLARI, S. 2012 A new species of the didelphid marsupial genus Monodelphis is described from the eastern Bolivian province of Santa Cruz. American Museum novitates, 3740, 1–14.

- PINE, R. H., FLORES, D. A.& BAUER, K., 2013. The second known specimen of Monodelphis unistriata (Wagner) (Mammalia: Didelphimorphia), with redescription of the species and phylogenetic analysis Zootaxa, [S.l.], v. 3640, n. 3, p. 425–441.

TIPOS DE BULAS TIMPÂNICAS NO GRUPO de ESPÉCIES: Monodelphis americana

Bullae in the Monodelphis americana Group of  species

In this picture you can see the different development of the anterior process of the bulla.
Monodelphis iheringi a paedomorphic species have lost the process, and this process is small in the adjacent populations of M. americana. Gomes, N. F., 1991. LINK