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--> ORDER DIDELPHIMORPHIA
--> FAMILY Didelphidae
--> SUBFAMILY Didelphinae
--> GENUS Philander
--> SPECIES opossum
SUBSPECIES Philander opossum opossum
Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 55. | Type Locality: | "America;" restricted to Surinam by J. A. Allen (1900) and further restricted to Paramaribo, Surinam, by Matschie (1916). | |
| | Synonyms:
austroamericana O. Thomas, 1923 virginianus Tiedemann, 1808
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