Little woolly mouse opossum

Little woolly mouse opossum
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Didelphimorphia
Family:	Didelphidae
Genus:	Marmosa
Subgenus:	Micoureus
Species:	M. phaea
Binomial name
Marmosa phaea Thomas, 1899
Little woolly mouse opossum range
Synonyms
Micoureus phaeus(Thomas, 1899)

The little woolly mouse opossum (Marmosa phaea) is a nocturnal, arboreal and mainly solitary species of South American marsupial in the family Didelphidae. ^[2] It is native to the western slopes of the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, where it lives at altitudes from sea level to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft). ^[1] It primarily inhabits lowland rainforest and montane cloud forest, although it has been reported from dry forest in the southern end of its range. ^[1] It was formerly assigned to the genus Micoureus , which was made a subgenus of Marmosa in 2009. ^[3] Its conservation status is vulnerable, due to habitat fragmentation and continuing loss of habitat via urbanization and conversion to agriculture. ^[1]

References

1. Solari, S.; Patterson, B. (2015). "Marmosa phaea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2015 e.T136244A22175055. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T136244A22175055.en . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
2. Gardner, A.L. (2005). "Order Didelphimorphia". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 13. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
3. Voss, R. S.; Jansa, S. A. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships and classification of didelphid marsupials, an extant radiation of New World metatherian mammals". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 322: 1–177. doi:10.1206/322.1. hdl:2246/5975. S2CID   85017821.