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Tate's Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Thylamys tatei

Classification

Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys tatei) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae, named after American zoologist George Henry Hamilton Tate. It is found at elevations of 300 to 3,000 m along the coast of central Peru. The species has the northernmost range of any member of its genus.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 1