Patagonian opossum

Patagonian Opossum
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Subfamily: Didelphinae
Genus: Lestodelphys
Tate, 1934
Species: L. halli
Binomial name
Lestodelphys halli
(Thomas, 1921)
Patagonian Opossum range

The Patagonian opossum (Lestodelphys halli) is the sole species in genus Lestodelphys.[2] They occur further south, in Argentina, than any other living marsupial.

References

  1. ^ Costa, L., Astua de Moraes, D., Brito, D., Soriano, P., Lew, D. & Delgado, C. (2008). Lestodelphys halli. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 December 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
  2. ^ 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. 8. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=10400065.