- Dusky Caenolestid
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Dusky Caenolestid[1] 
Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Marsupialia Order: Paucituberculata Family: Caenolestidae Genus: Caenolestes Species: C. fuliginosus Binomial name Caenolestes fuliginosus
Tomes, 1863Subspecies - C. f. centralis
- C. f. fuliginosus
- C. f. obscurus
Silky Shrew Opossum range The Dusky Caenolestid (Caenolestes fuliginosus), also known as the Dusky Shrew Opossum, the Silky Shrew Opossum, or the Ecuadorean Shrew-Opossum, is a small marsupial that lives in the alpine forests and meadows of the Andes. Its range stretches across Colombia, Ecuador, and northwestern Venezuela. It is the best known of the six surviving species of the order Paucituberculata (shrew opossums).
References
- ^ Gardner, Alfred L. (16 November 2005). "Order Paucituberculata (pp. 19-20)". 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. 19. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=10500009.
- ^ Patterson, B., Gomez-Laverde, M. & Delgado, C. (2008). Caenolestes fuliginosus. 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
External links
- Animal Diversity Web entry for Caenolestes fuliginosus
- Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections: Shrew opossum (Caenolestes fuliginosus)
Extant Paucituberculata (Shrew opossums) species Kingdom Animalia · Phylum Chordata · Class Mammalia · Infraclass Marsupialia Caenolestes
(Common shrew
opossums)Gray-bellied Caenolestid (C. caniventer) · Andean Caenolestid (C. condorensis) · Northern Caenolestid (C. convelatus) · Dusky Caenolestid (C. fuliginosus)Lestoros Rhyncholestes Category 
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