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Gray-bellied Shrew Opossum

Caenolestes caniventer

Classification

The gray-bellied caenolestid (Caenolestes caniventer), or grey-bellied shrew opossum, is a shrew opossum found in humid, temperate forests and moist grasslands of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It was first described by American zoologist Harold Elmer Anthony in 1921. Little is known about the behavior of the gray-bellied caenolestid.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru