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SPECIES Marmosops impavidus

Author:Tschudi, 1845.
Citation:Fauna Peruana, 1: 149.
Common Name:Tschudi’s Slender Opossum
Type Locality:"Der mittleren und tiefen Waldregion;" interpreted by Cabrera (1958:16) as Perú, Junín, "Montaña de Vitoc, cerca de Chanchamayo."
Distribution:Darién of Panamá to Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, W Brazil, and E Bolivia.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).
Comments:This taxon is too poorly known to assign names to subspecies with confidence.
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Synonyms:

    albiventris (Tate, 1931)
    caucae (Thomas, 1900)
    celicae (Anthony, 1922)
    madescens (Osgood, 1913)
    ocellata (Tate, 1931)
    oroensis (Anthony, 1922)
    purui (Miller, 1913)
    sobrina (Thomas, 1913)
    ucayaliensis (Tate, 1931)

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