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Philander melanurus
Carlos Ruiz (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.

Dark Four-eyed Opossum

Philander melanurus (Thomas, 1899)

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
Middle America, South America
Also published as
Metachirus melanurus Thomas, 1899; Philander opossum melanurus (Thomas, 1899)
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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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Every page naming Philander melanurus 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.

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