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A common four-eyed opossum from Mato Grosso, Brazil. This species has grayish upperparts and buff-colored underparts. The upper parts are silver- and brownish-tipped but grayish overall, and the head is very dark brown. It has two patches of buff above either eye. The underparts are buff-colored near the stomach but whiter near the sides.
The undersides are a yellowish color, extending onto the bottom of the jaw, the cheeks, and in front of the ears. It has two similarly yellowish-creamy-colored spots above each eye. The tail is hairless and black for roughly the basal half its length, and white for the distal half. The feet are pink. [4]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. Four-eyed opossum may refer to: Brown four-eyed opossum, genus Metachirus ...
The nine species in the genus Philander, commonly known as gray and black four-eyed opossums, are members of the order Didelphimorphia. Mature females have a well-developed marsupium . The tail appears to be hairless except for the proximal (closest to the body) 5 or 6 cm, which has a few long hairs.
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 ...
The gray four-eyed opossum has an omnivorous diet containing fruits, nectar, insects, small mammals (such as mice), birds, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, snails, and earthworms. [6] Its diet varies depending on the season. [6] With such a varied diet, the gray four-eyed opossum will both encounter and eat venomous snakes.
The southeastern four-eyed opossum (Philander frenatus) is an opossum species native to South America. [2] It is found in Atlantic Forest ecoregions, in Brazil , Paraguay and Argentina . Description
The Pebas four-eyed opossum was described in 2018 by Robert S. Voss, Juan F. Díaz-Nieto, and Sharon Jansa. Specimens of this species had previously been collected, but considered to be synonymous with the southern four-eyed opossum, the gray four-eyed opossum, or the common four-eyed opossum, [1] with the lattermost being the sister species to P. pebas based on analysis of the cytochrome b. [2]