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Marajó Short-tailed Opossum
Monodelphis glirina
The Amazonian red-sided opossum (Monodelphis glirina) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae, formerly viewed as part of M. brevicaudata. It is found in South America (Bolivia, Brazil and Peru), where it inhabits the Amazon rainforest. It is omnivorous, nocturnal, and primarily nonarboreal.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 852325.