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--> ORDER DIDELPHIMORPHIA
--> FAMILY Didelphidae
--> SUBFAMILY Didelphinae
--> GENUS Marmosops
SPECIES Marmosops noctivagus
Author: | Tschudi, 1844. | Citation: | Fauna Peruana, 1: 148. | Common Name: | White-bellied Slender Opossum | Type Locality: | "Der mittleren und tiefen Waldregion"; restricted by Tate (1933) to Perú, Junín, Montaña de Vitoc, near Chanchamayo, Río Perené drainage. | Distribution: | Amazonian Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, and adjacent Brazil. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Anderson (1997) recognized M. noctivagus keaysi in Bolivia. Nevertheless, noctivagus is too poorly known to assign names to subspecies with confidence. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
collega (Thomas, 1920) keaysi (J. A. Allen, 1900) leucastra (Thomas, 1927) lugenda (Thomas, 1927) neglecta (Osgood, 1915) polita (Cabrera, 1913) stollei (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1936)
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