Long-nosed Shrew Opossum

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Long-nosed Shrew Opossum
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Marsupialia Order: Paucituberculata Family: Caenolestidae Genus: Rhyncholestes Osgood, 1924 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 vulnerable species included in the Red List of threatened species.

[edit] References

• New World Marsupial Specialist Group (1996). Rhyncholestes raphanurus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Listed as Vulnerable (VU A1c v2.3)
• 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, 19-20. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 

[edit] External links

• Rhyncholestes raphanurus (TSN 552589). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Rhyncholestes raphanurus image

v • d • e Extant Paucituberculata species Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Mammalia · Infraclass: Marsupialia Caenolestes Grey-bellied Shrew Opossum (Caenolestes caniventer) · Andean Shrew Opossum (Caenolestes condorensis) · Northern Shrew Opossum (Caenolestes convelatus) · Dusky Shrew Opossum (Caenolestes fuliginosus) Lestoros Incan Shrew Opossum (Lestoros inca) Rhyncholestes Long-nosed Shrew Opossum (Rhyncholestes raphanurus) Category