Didelphinae

Didelphinae
Didelphinae[1][2]
Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) in Ohio.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Subfamily: Didelphinae
Gray, 1821
Genera

Chacodelphys
Chironectes
Cryptonanus
Didelphis
Gracilinanus
Hyladelphys
Lestodelphys
Lutreolina
Marmosa
Marmosops
Metachirus
Micoureus
Monodelphis
Philander
Thylamys
Tlacuatzin

Didelphinae is a subfamily of opossums.[3][2][4] Specimens have been collected throughout the Americas but are predominant in South and Central America.[5]

Some sources call this subfamily the "American opossums",[6][2] while others use that term for the whole family of opossums, Didelphidae.[1] The term is redundant, though, since all opossums are native to the Americas, while their taxonomic cousins the possums are native to Australia.

References

  1. ^ a b http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=552338
  2. ^ a b c http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=107310
  3. ^ http://www.organismnames.com/details.htm?lsid=164149
  4. ^ http://starcentral.mbl.edu/microscope/portal.php?pagetitle=classification&BLCHID=24-352
  5. ^ http://www.boldsystems.org/views/taxbrowser.php?taxid=3253
  6. ^ http://www.eol.org/pages/2844138

Further reading

  • Les marsupiaux du Tertiaire d'Europe.
  • Phylogenetic studies on didelphid marsupials II. Nonmolecular data and new IRBP sequences: Separate and combined analyses of didelphine relationships with denser taxon sampling.
  • New didelphine marsupials from La Venta fauna (Miocene) of Colombia, South America.
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