Northern Red-sided Opossum

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iNorthern Red-sided Opossum[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Genus: Monodelphis
Species: M. brevicaudata
Binomial name
Monodelphis brevicaudata
(Erxleben, 1777)

The Northern Red-sided Opossum, Monodelphis brevicaudata, is an opossum species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil. French Guyana, Guyana, Surinam and Venezuela.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Gardner, Alfred (November 16, 2005). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 14. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.