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They also have hairless ears and a long, flat nose. Opossums have 50 teeth, more than any other North American land mammal, [15] and opposable, clawless thumbs on their rear limbs. Opossums have 13 nipples, arranged in a circle of 12 with one in the middle. [16] [17] The dental formula of an opossum is 5.1.3.4 4.1.3.4. [18]
The common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis), also called the southern or black-eared opossum [2] or gambá, and sometimes called a possum, is a marsupial species living from the northeast of Mexico to Bolivia (reaching the coast of the South Pacific Ocean to the central coast of Peru), including Trinidad and Tobago and the Windwards in the Caribbean, [2] where it is called manicou. [3]
The largest difference between the opossum and non-marsupial mammals is the bifurcated penis of the male and bifurcated vagina of the female (the source of the term didelphimorph, from the Greek didelphys, meaning "double-wombed"). [38] Opossum spermatozoa exhibit sperm-pairing, forming conjugate pairs in the epididymis.
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. The Virginia opossum is the only marsupial/opossum species in New York. Virginia opossum. Family Didelphidae (American opossums) Subfamily: Didelphinae. Genus ...
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 latter subclass is divided into two infraclasses: pouched mammals (metatherians or marsupials), and placental mammals (eutherians, for which see List of placental mammals). Classification updated from Wilson and Reeder's "Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference" using the "Planet Mammifères" website. [1]
The water opossum (Chironectes minimus), also locally known as the yapok (/ ˈ j æ p ɒ k /), is a marsupial of the family Didelphidae. [3] It is the only monotypic species of its genus , Chironectes . [ 4 ]
Phalangeriformes / f ə ˈ l æ n dʒ ər ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / is a paraphyletic [1] suborder of about 70 species of small to medium-sized arboreal marsupials native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi. [2] The species are commonly known as possums, opossums, [3] gliders, and cuscus.