CAENOLESTIDAE, Trouessart, 1898

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2015, Caenolestidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 5 Monotremes and Marsupials, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 188-197 : 188

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6588401
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6587913
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scientific name	CAENOLESTIDAE
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Family CAENOLESTIDAE View in CoL

(SHREW-OPOSSUMS)

• Small-sized terrestrial, pouchless marsupials, with peculiar lip flaps flanking upper and lower cheek teeth and very long, procumbent lower incisors; big toes not opposable and tails not prehensile.

• 15-25 cm. View Figure

• Neotropical Region. View Figure

• Subtropical and montane forests and paramo grasslands of the Andes.

• 3 genera, 7 species, 11 axa.

• 2 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.