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GBIF·2439919speciesAnimalia2,633 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderDidelphimorphia
  5. ›familyDidelphidae
  6. ›genusDidelphis
Didelphis pernigra
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Andean White-eared Opossum

Didelphis pernigra J.A.Allen, 1900

Also calledAnden-Opossum (deu) · Andenopossum (deu) · Andenweißohropossum (deu) · Chucha común (spa) · Chucha orejiblanca (spa) · Chucha | Comadreja | Fara (spa) · Opossum des Andes (fra) · Opossum à oreilles blanches des Andes (fra) · Zarigüeya andina de orejas blancas (spa) · dydelf andyjski (pol) · アンデスシロミミオポッサム (jpn)

First described in: Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist vol.13 p.191

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

Corporaciones autónomas regionales donde tiene presencia la especie

Cormacaren | Carder | Corpoguajira | Corponariño | Cortolima | Codechocó | Corpocaldas | CVC

Mamíferos de Colombia

discussion

Remarks: All the skins were undetermined and not reported in the MZUT catalogue. The skulls MZUT T 442 and 443 were undetermined.

Revised catalogue of monotremes and marsupials in the historic mammal collection housed at Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali of Torino, Italy

materials_examined

MZUT T 442; skin; unsexed ad.; Ibarra, Ecuador, XII / 1896; Festa expedition (voucher number 67); MZUT T 442 (MACUT 4678); partial skull; MZUT T 443; skin; unsexed subad.; Quito, Ecuador, XII / 1896; Festa expedition (voucher number 69); MZUT T 443 (MACUT 4667); skull.

Revised catalogue of monotremes and marsupials in the historic mammal collection housed at Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali of Torino, Italy

discussion

Discussion: Previously in albiventris (see Gardner, 1993); revised by Lemos and Cerqueira (2002).

Order Didelphimorphia

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2439919.