| Red-bellied gracile opossum | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
 Extinct (1962) (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Genus: | Cryptonanus |
| Species: | †C. ignitus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Cryptonanus ignitus (Díaz, Flores & Barquez, 2002) | |
The red-bellied gracile opossum (Cryptonanus ignitus) is an extinct species of opossum that was native to Jujuy Province in northwest Argentina. Its forest habitat has been destroyed, and it was last seen in 1962. It is likely a synonym of the Chacoan gracile opossum.
References
- Flores, D. (2016). "Cryptonanus ignitus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T41320A22177809. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T41320A22177809.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- Teta, Pablo; Díaz-Nieto, Juan F. (May 2019). "How integrative taxonomy can save a species from extinction: The supposedly extinct mouse opossum Cryptonanus ignitus (Diaz, Flores and Barquez, 2000) is a synonym of the living C. chacoensis (Tate, 1931)". Mammalian Biology. 96. doi:10.1016/j.mambio.2019.04.004.
- Voss, R.S.; Lunde, D.P.; Jansa, S.A. (2005). "On the contents of Gracilinanus Gardner & Creighton, 1989, with the description of a previously unrecognized clade of small didelphid marsupials". American Museum Novitates (3482): 1–34. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2005)482[0001:OTCOGG]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5673. S2CID 84269504.
| Taxon identifiers | |
|---|---|
| Cryptonanus ignitus | |
| Gracilinanus ignitus | |
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