Mesopotamian Fat-tailed Opossum
Thylamys citellus
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.
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La marmosa común o comadreja enana (Thylamys pusillus) es una especie de marsupial didelfimorfo de la familia Didelphidae. Actualmente, su distribución aceptada se restringe principalmente al sudeste de Bolivia, oeste de Paraguay y sectores adyacentes del noreste de Formosa, en Argentina. Durante décadas, diversas poblaciones del centro y nordeste de Argentina fueron incluidas dentro de Thylamys pusillus.
Distribution
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