Localities gathered in the present study for the genus Makalata (tissues and/or karyotypes).

CTGA = vouchers collected by some authors of this work that will be deposited in the INPA mammal collection, Amazonas; MLOB 122 (INPA 6781) and MLOB 133 (INPA 6800); CRB = Cibele Rodrigues Bonvicino and will be deposited in the collection of mammals of the MN, Rio de Janeiro; MTCM = vouchers will be deposited in the mammal collection of the MZUSP, São Paulo; RVR = vouchers will be deposited in the mammal collection of UFMT; the other acronyms are used in the work of Patton et al. (2000) in the table 53, pg. 190. Some sequences (10) in the paper by Patton et al. (2000) could not be deposited with Genbank and are marked with an asterisk and listed as not deposited. Menezes et al. (2007): The sequences of this article were deposited with Genbank but the article was not accepted and not posteriorly published in another journal (C. R. Bonvicino, personal communication). (XLSX)