Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Order Marsupialia Jameson, 1818 - marsupials see Cohort Marsupialia Jameson, 1818
     Family Didelphidae Gray, 1821 - American opossums
       Genus Marmosa Gray, 1821 - murine opossums
         Subgenus Thylamys Gray, 1843 see Genus Thylamys Gray, 1843
           Marmosa elegans group see Genus Thylamys Gray, 1843
             Marmosa velutina Wagner, 1842 see Thylamys velutinus (Wagner, 1842)