Red-bellied gracile opossum

Red-bellied gracile opossum
Red-bellied Gracile Opossum
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Genus: Cryptonanus
Species: C. ignitus
Binomial name
Cryptonanus ignitus
(Díaz, Flores & Barquez, 2002)

The Red-bellied Gracile Opossum (Cryptonanus ignitus) is an extinct species of opossum that was native to Jujuy Province, Argentina. Its forest habitat has been destroyed, and it was last seen in 1962.

References

  1. ^ Díaz, M. & Barquez, R. (2008). Cryptonanus ignitus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2008.
  • Voss, R.S.; Lunde, D.P.; Jansa; S.A. (2005). "On the contents of Gracilinanus Gardner & Creighton, 1989, with the description of a previously unrecognized clade of small didelphid marsupials". American Museum Novitates 3482: 1–34. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2005)482[0001:OTCOGG]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5673.