McIlhenny's Four-eyed Opossum
- McIlhenny's Four-eyed Opossum
Taxobox | name = McIlhenny's Four-eyed Opossum
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Didelphimorphia
familia = Didelphidae
genus = "Philander"
species = "P. mcilhennyi"
binomial = "Philander mcilhennyi"
binomial_authority = Gardner & Patton, 1972
The McIlhenny's Four-eyed Opossum, "Philander mcilhennyi", is an opossum species from South America. It is found in Brazil and Peru. It is almost entirely black, except for white spots above each eye.
This species is named for John Stauffer "Jack" McIlhenny (1909-1997), a grandson of the founder of the McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco sauce. He funded the 1968 Louisiana State University expedition that discovered the species.
References
*John F. Eisenberg and Kent H. Redford, 2000. Mammals of Neotropics: Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil.
*MSW3 Gardner|pages=16
*Maggie Heyn Richardson, "Rara avis", "Imagine Louisiana" magazine, Spring 2007, pp. 46-48.
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