- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderDidelphimorphia
- ›familyDidelphidae
- ›genusMonodelphis
Gardner's Short-tailed Opossum
Monodelphis gardneri Solari, Pacheco, Vivar & Emmons, 2012
Also calledGardners Spitzmausbeutelratte (deu) · Opossum de Gardner (fra) · monodelf parański (pol)
First described in: Solari, Sergio, Víctor Pacheco, Elena Vivar & Louise H. Emmons. 2012. A new species of Monodelphis (Mammalia: Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) from the montane forests of central Perú. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 125: 295-307.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
activity
Activity patterns. There is no information available for this species.
Didelphidae
biology_ecology
Habitat. Montane forests on eastern slope of Andes in central and southern Peru at elevations of 1785 - 2800 m. The few known specimens of Gardner’s Short-tailed Opossum were collected in undisturbed, humid, and dense montane forest; in montane forests with varying degrees of intergradation, from dense to semi-open; at the edge between a forest and an open sphagnum bog; in thickets of dense brush and bamboo; and at the edge of a clearing in cloud forest behind a house.
Didelphidae
biology_ecology
Movements, Home range and Social organization. There is no specific information for this species, but Gardner’s Short-tailed Opossum is probably ground dwelling. It has been captured in live traps set on the ground and in pitfall traps.
Didelphidae
breeding
Breeding. There is no information available for this species.
Didelphidae
In the stacks
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Every page naming Monodelphis gardneri in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 8899520.