Gray slender opossum
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Didelphimorphia |
Family: | Didelphidae |
Genus: | Marmosops |
Species: | M. incanus
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Binomial name | |
Marmosops incanus (Lund, 1841)
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Gray slender opossum range |
The gray slender opossum (Marmosops incanus), is an opossum species endemic to eastern Brazil.
This species is a semi-arboreal marsupial, moving on average 67.38% on the ground.[3] They are solitary, nocturnal, and scansorial (tree climbers).[4] Their diet consists mainly of insects.[5]
References
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- ^ Loretto, Diogo; Vieira, Marcus Vinícius (July 2008). "Use of space by the marsupial Marmosops incanus (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil". Mammalian Biology. 73 (4): 255–261. doi:10.1016/j.mambio.2007.11.015. ISSN 1616-5047.
- ^ Semedo, Thiago Borges Fernandes; Rossi, Rogério Vieira; Júnior, Tarcísio S. Santos (2013-01-01). "New records of the Spectacled Slender Opossum Marmosops ocellatus (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) with comments on its geographic distribution limits". Mammalia. 77 (2). doi:10.1515/mammalia-2012-0072. ISSN 1864-1547. S2CID 84602782.
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