Long-nosed Caenolestid

Long-nosed Caenolestid
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Paucituberculata
Family: Caenolestidae
Genus: Rhyncholestes
Osgood, 1924
Species: R. raphanurus
Binomial name
Rhyncholestes raphanurus
(Osgood, 1924)
Subspecies
  • R. r. continentalis
  • R. r. raphanurus
Long-nosed Caenolestid range

The Long-nosed Caenolestid (Rhyncholestes raphanurus), or Long-nosed Shrew Opossum, is one of six surviving species of shrew opossum.[2] It is a small marsupial that lives in old growth evergreen temperate forests in Chile and Argentina. It is unique among shrew opossums and, as such, is the only species in its genus, Rhyncholestes.

It is a vulnerable species included in the Red List of threatened species.

References

  1. ^ Diaz, M. & Teta, P. (2008). Rhyncholestes raphanurus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 December 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is listed as near threatened
  2. ^ Gardner, Alfred L. (16 November 2005). "Order Paucituberculata (pp. 19-20)". 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.). pp. 19-20. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=10500016. 

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