Philander andersoni

(Osgood, 1913)

Anderson's Four-eyed Opossum

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Marsupialia
Superorder : Ameridelphia
Order : Didelphimorphia
Family : Didelphidae
Subfamily : Didelphinae
Tribe : Didelphini
Genus : Philander

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Osgood, W.H. 1913-05-31. New Peruvian mammals. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 10(9):93-100.

Original name as described

Metachirus andersoni

Other common names

Black Four-eyed Opossum

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:19655

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Yurimaguas, [Loreto], Peru."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia · Venezuela · Brazil · Ecuador · Peru

Distribution notes

NW Amazon Basin of S Venezuela, S Colombia, E Ecuador, NE and E Peru, and NW Brazil.

Taxonomy notes

previously included P. nigratus

Taxonomy notes citation

Voss, R. S., & Giarla, T. C. (2020). A Revision of Philander (Marsupialia: Didelphidae), Part 2: Phylogenetic Relationships and Morphological Diagnosis of P. nigratus Thomas, 1923. American Museum Novitates, 3955, 1-16.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Country distribution map

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