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Philander canus
Vincent A. Vos (CC BY 4.0) · Wikimedia Commons. 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.

Common Four-eyed Opossum

Philander canus (Osgood, 1913)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
South America
Also published as
Metachirus canus Osgood, 1913; Philander mondolfii Lew, Pérez-Hernández & Ventura, 2006; Philander opossum canus (Osgood, 1913)
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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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In the stacks

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Every page naming Philander canus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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References

  • 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.
  • Voss, Robert S., Juan F. Díaz-Nieto, and Sharon A. Jansa. (2018). A Revision of Philander (Marsupialia: Didelphidae), Part 1: P. quica, P. canus, and a New Species from Amazonia. American Museum Novitates, Vol. 3891.

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