Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum
| Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Genus: | Thylamys |
| Species: | T. tatei |
| Binomial name | |
| Thylamys tatei Handley, 1957 | |
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| Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum range | |
Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys tatei) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae,[2] named after American zoologist George Henry Hamilton Tate.[3] It is found at elevations of 300 to 3,000 m along the coast of central Peru.[1] The species has the northernmost range of any member of its genus.[1] It has white ventral fur and short condylobasal and zygomatic lengths. T. pallidior is very similar.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 Solari, S. & Patterson, B. (2008). Thylamys tatei. 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: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 18. 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.
- ↑ Gardner, Alfred L. (2008). Mammals of South America: Marsupials, xenarthrans, shrews, and bats. University of Chicago Press. pp. 669 (see p. 115). ISBN 0-226-28240-6.
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