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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) Subfamily: Didelphinae. Virginia opossum, D. virginiana [n 1] [n 2] LC
This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean region, whether resident or as migrants. This article does not include species found only in captivity.
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
This is a list of North American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [A] and continues to the present day. [1] Recently extinct animals in the West Indies and Hawaii are in their own respective lists.
Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million in total. Animals range in size from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) long and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs.
Pages in category "Mammals of the United States" The following 111 pages are in this category, out of 111 total. ... American badger; American bison; American black bear;
Illustrating the advantage of gaining a head start in colonizing a new land mass, sigmodontine rodents comprise 99.5% of all cricetid rodents in South America, but only 42% in Central America, 17% in Mexico and 7% in North America north of Mexico. Suborder: Hystricomorpha. Parvorder Caviomorpha. Family: Erethizontidae (New World porcupines)
Van Ngoc Thinh, Mootnick, Vu Ngoc Thanh, Nadler & Roos 2010 Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam Van Ngoc Thinh, Mootnick, A.R., Vu Ngoc Thanh, Nadler, T. & Roos, C. 2010. A new species of crested gibbon, from the central Annamite mountain range. Vietnamese Journal of Primatology 4:1–12 [permanent dead link ] Peropteryx pallidoptera: Chiroptera