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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderDidelphimorphia
  5. ›familyDidelphidae
  6. ›genusGracilinanus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Wood Sprite Gracile Opossum

Gracilinanus dryas (Thomas, 1898)

Also calledChuchita de Mérida (spa) · Marmosa duende (spa) · Merida-Zwergbeutelratte (deu) · Opossum des bois (fra) · Petit opossum-souris de bois (fra) · Wald-Schmalbeutelratte (deu) · oposik wenezuelski (pol) · pohjoisandienopossumi (fin) · vačice lesní (ces) · Опоссум-дриада (rus) · モリマウスオポッサム (jpn)

First described in: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7 vol.1 p.456

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

activity

Activity patterns. There is no information available for this species.

Didelphidae

biology_ecology

Habitat. Cloud forest and montane wet forest at elevations of 2300 - 4000 m and usually associated with moist sites.

Didelphidae

biology_ecology

Movements, Home range and Social organization. There is no specific information available for this species, but the Wood Sprite Opossum seems to use ground and arborealstrata equally.

Didelphidae

breeding

Breeding. There is no information available for this species.

Didelphidae

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2439849.