Chacoan gracile opossum
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| Chacoan gracile opossum[1] | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Genus: | Cryptonanus |
| Species: | C. chacoensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Cryptonanus chacoensis (Tate, 1931) | |
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| Chacoan gracile opossum range | |
The chacoan gracile opossum (Cryptonanus chacoensis) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae.[3] It is native to Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Its habitat is seasonally flooded grasslands and forests[2] in and near the Gran Chaco.
References
- ↑ Voss, R.S.; Lunde, D.P.; Jansa; S.A. (2005). "On the contents of Gracilinanus Gardner & Creighton, 1989, with the description of a previously unrecognized clade of small didelphid marsupials". American Museum Novitates 3482: 1–34. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2005)482[0001:OTCOGG]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5673.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Carmignotto, A., de la Sancha, N., Flores, D. & Teta, P. (2011). "Cryptonanus chacoensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 18 January 2012.
- ↑ Gardner, A. L. (2005). "Order Didelphimorphia". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 6–7. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- Tate, G.H.H. (1931). "Brief diagnoses of twenty-six apparently new forms of Marmosa (Marsupialia) from South America". American Museum Novitates 493: 1–14. hdl:2246/3835.
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