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black four-eyed opossums

Philander quica

Classification

The southern four-eyed opossum (Philander quica) is a species of opossum from South America. Taxonomy This species was described in 1824 by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in his 1824 work Monographies de Mammalogie. Similar to many early marsupials, this species was originally described in the genus Didelphis.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil