Mammal Species of the World Logo

 

HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA  --> ORDER DIDELPHIMORPHIA  --> FAMILY Didelphidae  --> SUBFAMILY Didelphinae  --> GENUS Didelphis

SPECIES Didelphis virginiana

Author:Kerr, 1792.
Citation:In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom: 193.
Common Name:Virginia Opossum
Type Locality:"Virginia, Louisiana, Mexico, Brasil, and Peru;" restricted to Virginia (J. A. Allen, 1901:160c).
Distribution:S Canada; E and C United States (with introduced populations in Pacific states); México; and in Central America south into N Costa Rica.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Revised by Gardner (1973, 1982); reviewed by McManus (1974, Mammalian Species, 40).
EXPORT AS CSV

Offspring:

SUBSPECIES virginiana

SUBSPECIES californica

SUBSPECIES pigra

SUBSPECIES yucatanensis

Synonyms:


  Bucknell Home Page   Biology Department Home Page

 

©Bucknell Univesity All Rights Reserved
Comments and questions to dreeder@bucknell.edu