Peruvian short-tailed opossum

Peruvian short-tailed opossum
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [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) [2]

The Peruvian short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis peruviana) is a species of marsupial in the family Didelphidae ^[1] .It is found in Bolivia and Peru. ^[1]

Classification

This species was initially described as Peramys peruvianus by Wilfred H. Osgood in 1913. ^[2] It was later placed in the genus Monodelphis and was included under the species M. adusta (sepia short-tailed opossum) by Cabrera (1958). ^[3] 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. ^[3]

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.