Reig's opossum[1] | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Didelphimorphia |
Family: | Didelphidae |
Genus: | Monodelphis |
Species: | M. reigi Lew & Pérez-Hernández, 2004 |
Binomial name | |
Monodelphis reigi |
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Reig's Opossum range |
Reig's opossum (Monodelphis reigi) is a South American opossum species of the family Didelphidae, discovered in 2004.[2] It is known so far only from montane forest in Canaima National Park, Venezuela at an elevation of 1300 m in the Sierra de Lema.[2] It is named after Argentine biologist Osvaldo Reig (1929–1992).[3]