- Heavy-browed mouse opossum
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Heavy-browed mouse opossum Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Marsupialia Order: Didelphimorphia Family: Didelphidae Genus: Marmosa Species: M. andersoni Binomial name Marmosa andersoni
Pine, 1972
Heavy-browed mouse opossum range The heavy-browed mouse opossum (Marmosa andersoni), or Anderson's mouse opossum, is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae.[2] It is endemic to a restricted range in southern Peru.[1] This opossum inhabits forests; it is nocturnal and probably arboreal.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Diaz, M. & Barquez, R. (2008). Marmosa andersoni. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 December 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is data deficient
- ^ Gardner, Alfred L. (16 November 2005). "Order Didelphimorphia (pp. 3-18)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 8. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=10400071.
- Solari, Sergio & Pine, Ronald H. (2008). "Rediscovery and redescription of Marmosa (Stegomarmosa) andersoni Pine (Mammalia: Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae), an endemic Peruvian mouse opossum, with a reassessment of its affinities". Zootaxa 1758: 49–61. http://216.92.149.63/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01756p061.pdf.
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