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Didelphidae Gray 1821
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Family DIDELPHIDAE
(OPOSSUMS)
® Smallto medium-sized marsupals with mostly-naked tails, pointed snouts, prehensile hands and feet with five fingers on both and claws on hands, and opposable thumbs on hindfeet; some species with a pouch.
* 10-95 cm.
* Nearctic and Neotropical Regions.
* Wide-ranging, virtually present in all vegetation formations and biomes of the Americas from 50° N to 48° S.
* 18 genera, 103 species, at least 143 taxa.
* 2 species Critically Endangered, 6 species Vulnerable;1 species Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Astúa, D., 2015, Didelphidae, pp. 129-186 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 5 Monotremes and Marsupials, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 129, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6685333
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- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Didelphimorphia
- Family
- Didelphidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Didelphidae Gray, 1821 sec. Astúa, 2015