Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum
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Species: | T. karimii
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Thylamys karimii Petter, 1968
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Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys karimii) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae.[2] It is endemic to central and northeast Brazil, where it is found in the cerrado and caatinga.[1] Its head-and-body length is about 95 millimeters, and its tail length is about 72 millimeters. It is very similar to T. pallidor. Its tail may be nonprehensile.[3] The species is named after Iranian epidemiologist Y. Karimi.[4]
References
- ^ a b Template:IUCN2008
- ^ Gardner, A.L. (2005). "Order Didelphimorphia". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Eisenberg, John Frederick; Redford, Kent Hubbard (1999). Mammals of the Neotropics: The Central Neotropics: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil. University of Chicago Press. pp. 624 (see p. 75). ISBN 978-0-226-19542-1.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009-09-28). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 219–20. ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9. OCLC 270129903.