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Mesopotamian Fat-tailed Opossum

Thylamys citellus

Classification

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