Bishop's Slender Opossum

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Bishop's Slender Opossum[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Genus: Marmosops
Species: M. bishopi
Binomial name
Marmosops bishopi
(Pine, 1981)

The Bishop's Slender Opossum, Marmosops bishopi is a small, arboreal marsupial opossum native to Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia.[1] It somewhat resembles a placental rat or shrew.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Gardner, Alfred (November 16, 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 10. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
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