Tate's woolly mouse opossum
| Tate's woolly mouse opossum | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Genus: | Marmosa |
| Subgenus: | Micoureus |
| Species: | M. paraguayana |
| Binomial name | |
| Marmosa paraguayana (Tate, 1931) | |
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| Tate's woolly mouse opossum range | |
| Synonyms | |
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Micoureus paraguayanus | |
Tate's woolly mouse opossum (Marmosa paraguayana) is an omnivorous, arboreal South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae,[2] named after American zoologist George Henry Hamilton Tate.[3] It is native to Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. The species lives in both primary and secondary forest, including forest fragments within grassland.[1] Insects are a major component of its diet.[1] It was formerly assigned to the genus Micoureus, which was made a subgenus of Marmosa in 2009.[4] While its conservation status is "least concern", its habitat is shrinking through urbanization and conversion to agriculture over much of its range.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Brito, D., Astua de Moraes, D., de la Sancha, N. & Flores, D. (2011). "Marmosa paraguayanus [sic]". 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. p. 13. 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. 405. ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9. OCLC 270129903.
- ↑ Voss, R. S.; Jansa, S. A. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships and classification of didelphid marsupials, an extant radiation of New World metatherian mammals". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 322: 1–177. doi:10.1206/322.1. hdl:2246/5975.