Unduavi gracile opossum

Unduavi Gracile Opossum
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Genus: Cryptonanus
Species: C. unduaviensis
(Tate, 1931)
Binomial name
Cryptonanus unduaviensis
Unduavi Gracile Opossum range

The Unduavi gracile opossum (Cryptonanus unduaviensis) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is native to northern Bolivia, where it has been found in seasonally flooded grassland.[1] Some of the specimens recognized by Voss et al. as belonging to this species were previously classified as the unduaviensis or buenavistae subspecies of Gracilinanus agilis.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Brito, D., Astua de Moraes, D., Lew, D., Soriano, P. & Emmons, L. (2008). Cryptonanus unduaviensis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 March 2009.
  2. ^ Voss, R.S.; Lunde, D.P.; Jansa; S.A. (2005). "On the contents of Gracilinanus Gardner & Creighton, 1989, with the description of a previously unrecognized clade of small didelphid marsupials". American Museum Novitates 3482: 1–34. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2005)482[0001:OTCOGG]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5673.