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Didelphis
Fig. 1. Mumtaz, Bashir, Ahmad, 2025 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Large American opossums

Didelphis Linnaeus, 1758

Also published as
Didelphus Lapham, 1853; Didelphys Schreber, 1778; Leucodidelphys Krumbiegel, 1941; Thylacotherium Lund, 1839

6 species · 6 branches

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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References

  • Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner. (1987). Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, No. 166.
  • Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. (1993). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd Ed., 3rd Printing.
  • Burgin, Connor J., Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands, et al. (2020). Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 1. Monotremata to Rodentia.
  • Wilson, Don E., and Russell A. Mittermeier, eds. (2015). Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Vol. 5. Monotremes and Marsupials.
  • Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd Ed., Vols. 1 & 2.
  • Nowak, Ronald M. (1991). Walker’s Mammals of the World, Vol. 1, 5th Ed.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.