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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER DIDELPHIMORPHIA
--> FAMILY Didelphidae
--> SUBFAMILY Didelphinae
--> GENUS Philander
SPECIES Philander opossum
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 55. | | Common Name: | Gray Four-eyed Opossum | | Type Locality: | "America;" restricted to Surinam by J. A. Allen (1900) and further restricted to Paramaribo, Surinam, by Matschie (1916). | | Distribution: | Tamaulipas, México, through Central and South America to Bolivia and SC Brazil. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Corbet and Hill (1980), Hall (1981), Husson (1978), and Pine (1973) used Metachirops opossum for this species. Reviewed by Castro-Arellano et al. (2000, Mammalian Species, 638). The name D. larvata Jentink, 1888, is a nomen nudum. Didelphis opossum Linnaeus, 1758, is the type species for Holothylax Cabrera, 1919. |
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