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SPECIES Micoureus paraguayanus

Author:Tate, 1931.
Citation:Amer. Mus. Novit., 493: 1.
Common Name:Tate’s Woolly Mouse Opossum
Type Locality:Paraguay, Guairá, "Villa Rica."
Distribution: E Brazil from Minas Gerais and S Bahia south to Rio Grande do Sul and E Paraguay.
Comments:Previously included under Marmosa cinerea; original name Didelphis cinerea Temminck, 1824, preoccupied by D. cinerea Goldfuss, 1812. Included in M. demerarae by Gardner (1993); see review by Patton and Costa (2003).
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SUBSPECIES paraguayanus

SUBSPECIES travassosi

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