Woolly Mouse Opossum

description

Measurements (n = 22): HB = 110 – 190, T = 205 – 245, HF = 22 – 30, E = 19 – 34, W = 71 – 140.

Small mammals of the mid-Araguaia River in central Brazil, with the description of a new species of climbing rat

distribution

Distribution. This species occurs in Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Guianas and northern and central Brazil, throughout humid forests of Amazonia and the northern part of the Atlantic Forest and the drier biomes of Cerrado and Caatinga (Gardner 2007). Natural history. Twenty-two individuals of M. demerarae, eleven of each sex, were captured on the ground (n = 18) and in the understory (n = 4) of flooded and upland forest. Six reproductively active females were captured from June to November 2007, three lactating and one with six pouch young and two with eleven pouch young. Vouchers (n = 5: 2 ɗ 3 Ψ): UFES 1282 – 1285.

Small mammals of the mid-Araguaia River in central Brazil, with the description of a new species of climbing rat

child_taxa

Subspecies:: Subspecies Micoureus demerarae subsp. demerarae Thomas 1905 Subspecies Micoureus demerarae subsp. areniticola Tate 1931 Subspecies Micoureus demerarae subsp. dominus Thomas 1920 Subspecies Micoureus demerarae subsp. esmeraldae Tate 1931 Subspecies Micoureus demerarae subsp. meridae Tate 1931

Order Didelphimorphia

discussion

Discussion: Previously included under Marmosa cinerea (Temminck, 1824).

Order Didelphimorphia