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The Chacoan pygmy opossum is the smallest known species of didelphid.It has a head-body length of 68 mm, a tail of 55 mm and a hind foot of 11. It differs from the other "marmosine" genera (Marmosa, Monodelphis, Thylamys, Tlacuatzin, Gracilinanus, Marmosops, Lestodelphys) in having a long third manual digit, no distinctly tricolored pelage, a long fourth pedal digit, and a tail shorter than ...
Pygmy possum, five living species of small marsupial in the family Burramyidae, from Australia and New Guinea Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pygmy opossum .
Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana). Didelphimorphia is an order of marsupial mammals.Members of this order are called didelphimorphs, or opossums.They are primarily found in South America, though some are found in Central America and Mexico and one, the Virginia opossum, ranges into the United States and Canada.
The common fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys pusillus) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It occurs in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay in chaco and Andean foothill habitats. [2] Its head-and-body length is about 75 to 120 (mean 94.3) mm, and its tail length is about 90 to 134 (mean 103.6) mm.
The thirteen members of the Marmosa subgenus Micoureus, known as woolly mouse opossums, were formerly considered to be a separate genus, [2] but were moved into Marmosa in 2009. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Based on a comparison of sequences of one mitochondrial and three nuclear genes, three new subgenera, Eomarmosa , Exulomarmosa and Stegomarmosa , were ...
The largest species, the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), is the only marsupial to be found in North America, north of Mexico. The Virginia opossum has opposable toes on their two back feet. One of the synapomorphies of this genus is the hypertrophied spinous processes of the cervical vertebrae, which also interlock. As a result, this ...
The chacoan gracile opossum (Cryptonanus chacoensis) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. [3] It is native to Argentina , Brazil and Paraguay . Its habitat is seasonally flooded grasslands and forests [ 2 ] in and near the Gran Chaco .
The five extant species of pygmy possum are grouped into two genera. Four of the species are endemic to Australia , with one species also co-occurring in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia . Pygmy possums range in length from about 5 to 12 cm (2.0 to 4.7 in), and usually weigh between 10 and 50 grams (0.35 and 1.76 oz).