Agricola's gracile opossum
| Agricola's Gracile Opossum[1] | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Genus: | Cryptonanus |
| Species: | C. agricolai (Moojen, 1943) |
| Binomial name | |
| Cryptonanus agricolai Gardner, 2007 | |
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| Agricola's gracile opossum range | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Gracilinanus agricolai (Moojen, 1943) | |
Agricola's gracile opossum (Cryptonanus agricolai) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae endemic to eastern Brazil.[3] Its habitat is the caatinga and cerrado.[2] While its conservation status has not been determined, expansion of agricultural activities is leading to loss of some of its habitat.[2] The species is named after Brazilian physician Ernani Agricola.[4]
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 2.2 Pires Costa, A. & Patterson, B. (2008). Cryptonanus agricolai. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
- ↑ Gardner, A. L. (2005). "Order Didelphimorphia". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009-09-28). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9. OCLC 270129903.