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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderDidelphimorphia
  5. ›familyDidelphidae
  6. ›genusMonodelphis
Monodelphis touan
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IUCN NE · Not evaluated

Touan Short-tailed Opossum

Monodelphis touan (G.Shaw, 1800)

Also calledOpossum touan (fra) · Pian rouge à queue courte (fra) · Touan-Spitzmausbeutelratte (deu) · catita (por) · catita-de-cauda-curta (por)

First described in: Shaw (1800): Monodelphis touan. Gen . ZooL 1 (2)

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

discussion

COMMENT: Includes emiliae; see Cabrera, 1958: 9. M. emiliae is considered a valid species according to Pine and Handley, in prep (RHP) and touan is probably a junior synonym of brevicaudata (RHP).

Order Marsupialia

distribution

DISTRIBUTION: Brazil; Paraguay; N. Argentina; French Guiana; Guyana; Surinam.

Order Marsupialia

activity

Activity patterns. A female Touan Short-tailed Opossum equipped with a radio transmitter was strictly diurnal in French Guiana.

Didelphidae

biology_ecology

Movements, Home range and Social organization. There is no specific information for this species, but the Touan Short-tailed Opossum is exclusively ground dwelling.

Didelphidae

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 9561014.