Panama Slender Opossum

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Panama Slender Opossum[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Genus: Marmosops
Species: M. invictus
Binomial name
Marmosops invictus
Goldman, 1912

The Panama Slender Opossum (Marmosops invictus) is a species of opossum in the Didelphidae family. It is endemic to Panama. It is threatened by habitat loss.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ 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, 11. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ a b New World Marsupial Specialist Group (1996). Marmosops invictus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.