Woodall's Slender Opossum

Marmosops woodalli

Classification

Class: Mammalia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae

Opossums () are members of the marsupial order Didelphimorphia () endemic to the Americas. The largest order of marsupials in the Western Hemisphere, it comprises 126 species in 18 genera. Opossums originated in South America and entered North America in the Great American Interchange following the connection of North and South America in the late Cenozoic.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Brazil · 1

Sources and credits

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Woodall's Slender Opossum

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