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Anderson's four-eyed opossum (Philander andersoni) is an opossum species from South America. [2] It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. Its dorsal fur is dark, with a black stripe, about 3–4 cm wide, going vertically down the midline of its back. Its dorsal fur is short, about 10 mm long.
Brown four-eyed opossum (Metachirus myosuros) Tribe Didelphini. Genus Chironectes. Yapok or water opossum (Chironectes minimus) Genus Lutreolina. Massoia's lutrine opossum (Lutreolina massoia) Big lutrine opossum or thick-tailed opossum (Lutreolina crassicaudata) Genus Philander (gray and black four-eyed opossum) Anderson's four-eyed opossum ...
Didelphimorphia is the order of common opossums of the Western Hemisphere. Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene. They are small to medium-sized marsupials, about the size of a large house cat, with a long snout and prehensile tail. Family: Didelphidae (American opossums)
Sepia short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis adusta LR/lc; Emilia's short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis emiliae VU; Osgood's short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis osgoodi VU; Genus: Philander. Anderson's four-eyed opossum, Philander andersoni LR/lc; Gray four-eyed opossum, Philander opossum LR/lc; Genus: Thylamys. White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum ...
The subspecies, today Caluromys derbianus pallidus, was originally described as Philander laniger pallidus, and was described two years before pallidus, in 1899. This makes the name pallidus preoccupied, so in 2020 Alfred L. Gardner and José Ramírez-Pulido decided to make a new species name for this taxa, choosing Philander vossi .
Anderson's four-eyed opossum; Argentine fat-tailed mouse opossum; B. ... Brown four-eyed opossum; Brown-eared woolly opossum; Buff-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum;
The order Didelphimorphia consists of one family, Didelphidae, which is divided into the subfamilies Caluromyinae, Glironiinae, Hyladelphinae, and Didelphinae.Caluromyinae contains 4 species in 2 genera, Glironiinae and Hyladelphinae each contain a single species, and Didelphinae contains 87 species in 14 genera, as well as the extinct red-bellied gracile opossum, which was last seen in 1962.
The common name "four-eyed opossum" comes from the spots above the eyes of this species looking like another set of eyes. The specific name " canus " comes from Latin and means "white" or " hoary ", [ 4 ] in reference to the lighter color of this species.