Didelphinae, Gray, 1821

Voss, Robert S., Fleck, David W. & Jansa, Sharon A., 2019, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 3: Marsupials (Didelphimorphia), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2019 (432), pp. 1-89 : 23

Subfamily Didelphinae

Species of the subfamily Didelphinae that occur in the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluve are classified into four tribes. The tribe Marmosini is locally represented by four species of mouse opossums ( Marmosa ) and three species of short-tailed opossums ( Monodelphis ); the tribe Didelphini is represented by the water opossum ( Chironectes minimus ), the so-called common opossum ( Didelphis marsupialis ), and two species of gray four-eyed opossums (Philan- der); the tribe Metachirini is represented by the brown four-eyed opossum ( Metachirus myosuros ); and the tribe Thylamyini is represented by one species of gracile mouse opossum ( Gracilinanus emiliae ) and three species of slender mouse opossums ( Marmosops ). Geographic range data suggest that three additional species known from specimens collected