Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758

Torres-Porras, Jeronimo, Cobos, Marlon E, Seoane, José Manuel & Aguirre, Nikolay, 2017, Large and medium-sized mammals of Buenaventura Reserve, southwestern Ecuador, Check List 13 (4), pp. 35-45 : 41

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/13.4.35

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD87EE-FFD0-FFA0-A492-F9164948F7A7

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Marcus

scientific name

Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758
status

 

Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL

Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus 1758 View in CoL — Tirira 2007, Astua de Moraes

et al. 2016.

Material examined: Table 1.

Dorsal pelage consists of two types of hair, one abundant, short, soft, woolly and clear, and another long and rough, black or white, which appears intermixed with small hairs; its dorsal coloration is black to gray; head yellowish-black to dirty white, sometimes with a black line not well-defined extending from the crown to the height of the eyes; tail a little longer than head and body combined, nude, black at the base and white towards the tip ( Tirira 2007).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Didelphimorphia

Family

Didelphidae

Genus

Didelphis

Loc

Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758

Torres-Porras, Jeronimo, Cobos, Marlon E, Seoane, José Manuel & Aguirre, Nikolay 2017
2017
Loc

Didelphis marsupialis

Linnaeus 1758
1758
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