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Peruvian short-tailed opossum
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Didelphimorphia
Family:	Didelphidae
Genus:	Monodelphis
Species:	M. peruviana
Binomial name
Monodelphis peruviana (Osgood, 1913)

The Peruvian short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis peruviana) is a species of marsupial in the family Didelphidae.It is found in Bolivia and Peru.

Classification

This species was initially described as Peramys peruvianus by Wilfred H. Osgood in 1913. It was later placed in the genus Monodelphis and was included under the species M. adusta (sepia short-tailed opossum) by Cabrera (1958). S. Solari (2004), while comparing and revising diagnoses of specimens of the species M. adusta with Monodelphis ronaldi sp. nov., found that Monodelphis adusta peruvianus was differentiable from M. adusta; having a shorter head-body length but longer dorsal hair than M. adusta.

References

1. ^ Solari, S. (2016). "Monodelphis peruviana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T51342998A51343019. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T51342998A51343019.en.
2. ^ Osgood, Wilfred Hudson (1913). "New Peruvian Mammals". Field Museum of Natural History. Zoology Series. 10 (9): 93. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
3. ^ Solari, Sergio (2004). "A new species of Monodelphis (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) from southeastern Peru". Mammalian Biology. 69 (3): 145–152. Bibcode:2004MamBi..69..145S. doi:10.1078/1616-5047-00129. Retrieved 28 January 2023.

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