Marmosops fuscatus

(O. Thomas, 1896)

Dusky Slender Opossum

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Marsupialia
Superorder : Ameridelphia
Order : Didelphimorphia
Family : Didelphidae
Subfamily : Didelphinae
Tribe : Thylamyini
Genus : Marmosops
Subgenus : Sciophanes

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1896-10-01. On new small mammals from the Neotropical region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)18(106):301-314.

Original name as described

Marmosa fuscata

Other common names

Dusky Slender Mouse Opossum · Gray-bellied Slender Mouse Opossum

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1896.11.1.6

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Rio Abbarregas [= Río Albarregas]," Merida, Venezuela, alt. 1630 metres."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Venezuela

Taxonomy notes

includes cracens

Taxonomy notes citation

Díaz-Nieto, J. F., & Voss, R. S. (2016). A revision of the didelphid marsupial genus Marmosops, Part 1. Species of the subgenus Sciophanes. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1-70.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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