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black four-eyed opossums

Philander vossi

Classification

The northern four-eyed opossum (Philander vossi) is a species of opossum from Central America. Taxonomy This species was originally described by the American mammalogist Joel Asaph Allen in 1901 under the name Metachirus fuscogriseus pallidus; fuscogriseus is itself a synonym of Philander melanurus. It would later be elevated to species by German zoologist Paul Matschie in 1916, before being considered a subspecies of Philander opossum again in 1924 by Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr.

Distribution

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