Bushy-tailed opossum

Bushy-tailed Opossum
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Subfamily: Glironiinae
Voss & Jansa (2009)
Genus: Glironia
Thomas, 1912
Species: G. venusta
Binomial name
Glironia venusta
Thomas, 1912
Bushy-tailed Opossum range

The Bushy-tailed Opossum, Glironia venusta, is an opossum species from South America.[1] It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.[2]

It is an arboreal, nocturnal and solitary animal that lives in lowland rain forest and tropical dry forest at altitudes up to 500 m.[2] It is distinguished from other opossums by its almost fully haired tail.

References

  1. ^ Gardner, Alfred L. (16 November 2005). "Order Didelphimorphia (pp. 3-18)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 4. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=10400029. 
  2. ^ a b Patterson, B. & Solari, S. (2008). "Glironia venusta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/9245. Retrieved 19 December 2009.