Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum

Taxobox | name = Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
trend = unknown

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image_width = 220px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Didelphimorphia
familia = Caluromyidae
genus = "Caluromys"
subgenus = "Caluromys"
species = "C. philander"
binomial = "Caluromys philander"
binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)
subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
subdivision =
*"Caluromys philander affinis"
*"Caluromys philander dichurus"
*"Caluromys philander philander"
*"Caluromys philander trinitatis"

Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum ("Caluromys philander"), also called the White-eared Opossum is an opossum species from South America. It is a species restricted only to moist forests.

Just like any other member of the "Caluromys" genus, the Bare-tailed Woolly opossum is a strongly arboreal species of marsupial, differing from other Didelphidae opossums for having a comparatively large encephalization quotient and smaller litter size. It feeds on fruits, nectar, invertebrates and small vertebrates.

References

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*John F. Eisenberg and Kent H. Redford, 2000. Mammals of Neotropics: Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil.
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