Hooded red-sided opossum

Hooded red-sided opossum
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Genus: Monodelphis
Species: M. palliolata
(Osgood, 1914)
Binomial name
Monodelphis palliolata
Hooded Red-sided Opossum range

The hooded red-sided opossum, Monodelphis palliolata, is a South American opossum species of the family Didelphidae.[2] Until recently, it was viewed as a subspecies of M. brevicaudata.[2] It is found in Colombia and Venezuela at altitudes from sea level to 2250 m.[1] It is a primarily nonarboreal resident of tropical rainforest, but has also been seen in areas under cultivation.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Lew, D. & Soriano, P. (2008). Monodelphis palliolata. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 March 2009.
  2. ^ a b 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.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=10400145.