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An Annotated Checklist Of Recent Opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae)

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Voss, Robert S. (2022): An Annotated Checklist Of Recent Opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2022 (455): 1-77, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1, URL: https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-american-museum-of-natural-history/volume-455/issue-1/0003-0090.455.1.1/An-Annotated-Checklist-of-Recent-Opossums-Mammalia-Didelphidae/10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1.full

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