Long-nosed Shrew Opossum

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Long-nosed Shrew Opossum
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Paucituberculata
Family: Caenolestidae
Genus: Rhyncholestes
Species: R. raphanurus
Binomial name
Rhyncholestes raphanurus
Osgood, 1924
Subspecies
  • R. r. continentalis
  • R. r. raphanurus

The Long-nosed Shrew Opossum (Rhyncholestes raphanurus) is one of six surviving species of shrew opossum. It is a small marsupial that lives in old growth evergreen temperate forests in Chile and Argentina. It is somewhat unique among shrew opossums and, as such, is the only species in its genus, Rhyncholestes.

It is an endangered species included in the Red List of threatened species.

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