Didelphinae
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| Didelphinae[1][2] | |
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| Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) in Ohio. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Subfamily: | Didelphinae Gray, 1821 |
| Genera | |
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Chacodelphys |
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Didelphinae is a subfamily of opossums.[3][2][4] Specimens have been collected throughout the Americas but are predominant in South and Central America.[5]
Some sources call this subfamily the "American opossums",[6][2] while others use that term for the whole family of opossums, Didelphidae.[1] The term is redundant, though, since all opossums are native to the Americas, while their taxonomic cousins the possums are native to Australia.
[edit] References
- ^ a b http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=552338
- ^ a b c http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=107310
- ^ http://www.organismnames.com/details.htm?lsid=164149
- ^ http://starcentral.mbl.edu/microscope/portal.php?pagetitle=classification&BLCHID=24-352
- ^ http://www.boldsystems.org/views/taxbrowser.php?taxid=3253
- ^ http://www.eol.org/pages/2844138
[edit] Further reading
- Les marsupiaux du Tertiaire d'Europe.
- Phylogenetic studies on didelphid marsupials II. Nonmolecular data and new IRBP sequences: Separate and combined analyses of didelphine relationships with denser taxon sampling.
- New didelphine marsupials from La Venta fauna (Miocene) of Colombia, South America.
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