- Brazilian slender opossum
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Brazilian Slender Opossum[1] Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Didelphimorphia Family: Didelphidae Genus: Marmosops Species: M. paulensis Binomial name Marmosops paulensis
Tate, 1931
Brazilian Slender Opossum range The Brazilian Slender Opossum, Marmosops paulensis, is an opossum species from South America. It is found in moist montane forest in the Atlantic Forest region of southeastern Brazil. Its breeding appears to be fully semelparous, unusual for a mammal.[3]
References
- ^ 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.). pp. 11-12. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=10400107.
- ^ Brito, D., Astua de Moraes, D., Lew, D. & Soriano, P. (2008). Marmosops paulensis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 December 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- ^ Leiner, Natalia O.; Setz, Eleonore Z. F.; Silva, Wesley R. (February 2008). "Semelparity and Factors Affecting the Reproductive Activity of the Brazilian Slender Opossum (Marmosps paulensis) in Southeastern Brazil". Journal of Mammalogy (American Society of Mammalogists) 89 (1): 153–158. doi:10.1644/07-MAMM-A-083.1. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1644/07-MAMM-A-083.1. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
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