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    The bushy-tailed opossum (Glironia venusta) is an opossum from South America. It was first described by English zoologist Oldfield Thomas in 1912. It...
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    The brown-eared opossum differs from the bare-tailed woolly opossum in having a bushier tail (in the bare-tailed opossum, the tail turns bare abruptly...
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    Genus Glironia Bushy-tailed opossum (Glironia venusta) Subfamily Caluromyinae Genus Caluromys Subgenus Caluromys Bare-tailed woolly opossum (Caluromys philander)...
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  • Thumbnail for Derby's woolly opossum
    Caluromys, Caluromysiops, Dromiciops (monito del monte) and Glironia (bushy-tailed opossum) under a single subfamily, Microbiotheriinae, noting the dental similarities...
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  • Thumbnail for Bare-tailed woolly opossum
    The bare-tailed woolly opossum (Caluromys philander) is an opossum from South America. It was first described by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus in 1758...
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  • Thumbnail for Virginia opossum
    The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), also known as the North American opossum, is a member of the opossum family found from southern Canada to...
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    Sepia short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis adusta) Northern three-striped opossum (Monodelphis americana) Arlindo's short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis arlindoi)...
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  • Thumbnail for Linnaeus's mouse opossum
    Linnaeus's mouse opossum (Marmosa murina), also known as the common or murine mouse opossum, is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. Its...
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    The bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum (Marmosa regina) or short-furred woolly mouse opossum is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. Its...
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    The red mouse opossum (Marmosa rubra) is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. Its range includes eastern Ecuador and Peru. Solari, S...
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  • Thumbnail for Gray short-tailed opossum
    The gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica) is a small South American member of the family Didelphidae. Unlike most other marsupials, the gray...
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  • Thumbnail for Water opossum
    The water opossum (Chironectes minimus), also locally known as the yapok (/ˈjæpɒk/), is a marsupial of the family Didelphidae. It is the only monotypic...
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  • Thumbnail for Tyler's mouse opossum
    Tyler's mouse opossum (Marmosa tyleriana) is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. It lives in rainforests of the Guiana Highlands of...
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  • Thumbnail for Woolly mouse opossum
    The woolly mouse opossum or long-furred woolly mouse opossum (Marmosa demerarae), known locally as the cuíca, is a South American marsupial of the family...
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    The black-shouldered opossum (Caluromysiops irrupta), also known as the white-eared opossum, is an opossum known from western Brazil and southeastern...
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  • Thumbnail for Common opossum
    The common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis), also called the southern or black-eared opossum or gambá, and sometimes called a possum, is a marsupial species...
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    in the genus Didelphis, commonly known as Large American opossums, are members of the opossum order, Didelphimorphia. The genus Didelphis is composed of...
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  • Thumbnail for Gray and black four-eyed opossum
    and black four-eyed opossums, are members of the order Didelphimorphia. Mature females have a well-developed marsupium. The tail appears to be hairless...
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  • Thumbnail for Alston's mouse opossum
    Alston's mouse opossum (Marmosa alstoni), also known as Alston's opossum, is a medium-sized pouchless marsupial of the family Didelphidae. It is arboreal...
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  • Thumbnail for Big lutrine opossum
    big lutrine opossum (Lutreolina crassicaudata), also called little water opossum, thick-tailed opossum and coligrueso, is a long-tailed, otter-like mammal...
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  • Glironiinae Genus Glironia Bushy-tailed opossum (Glironia venusta) Subfamily Hyladelphinae Genus Hyladelphys Kalinowski's mouse opossum (Hyladelphys kalinowskii)...
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  • Thumbnail for Emilia's short-tailed opossum
    Emilia's short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis emiliae) is an opossum species from South America. It is found south of the Amazon River from eastern Peru,...
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  • Thumbnail for Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum
    The elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys elegans), also known as the Chilean mouse opossum, is an opossum from central Chile. The type species of...
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  • Thumbnail for Gray four-eyed opossum
    The gray four-eyed opossum (Philander opossum) is an opossum species found in Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and northern Brazil, at altitudes from...
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  • Thumbnail for Long-nosed short-tailed opossum
    The long-nosed short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis scalops) is an opossum species in Argentina and Brazil. Gardner, A. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M...
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    The one-striped opossum (Monodelphis unistriata) is a possibly extinct opossum species from South America. It is known only from two specimens found in...
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  • Thumbnail for Andean white-eared opossum
    The Andean white-eared opossum (Didelphis pernigra) is an opossum species from South America. It is found in the Andes Mountains, ranging from Venezuela...
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  • Thumbnail for White-eared opossum
    The white-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris), known as the timbu and cassaco in northeast Brazil, saruê and sariguê in Bahia, micurê and mucura in...
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  • Thumbnail for Northern three-striped opossum
    The northern three-striped opossum (Monodelphis americana) is an opossum species from South America. It is endemic to Atlantic Forest ecoregions of coastal...
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    The big-eared opossum (Didelphis aurita), also known as a saruê, or the gambá, is an opossum species from South America. It is found in Argentina, Brazil...
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