Osgood's short-tailed opossum

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Osgood's short-tailed opossum
Systematics
Class : Mammals (mammalia)
Subclass : Marsupials (Marsupialia)
Order : Opossum-like (Didelphimorphia)
Family : Opossum rats (Didelphidae)
Genre : Shrew pouch rats ( Monodelphis )
Type : Osgood's short-tailed opossum
Scientific name
Monodelphis osgoodi
( Doutt , 1938)
Distribution area (blue) of the Osgoods short-tailed opossum

Osgood's short-tailed opossum ( Monodelphis osgoodi ) is a little researched bag mammal from the genus of the shrew pouch rats ( Monodelphis ). The kind epithet honors the American zoologist Wilfred Hudson Osgood .

features

The total length is 154 to 158 mm, the head body length 94 to 96 mm, the tail length 60 to 62 mm and the ear length 9 mm. The back fur is cinnamon brown, the peritoneum lighter brown. The base of the belly hair is gray. The karyotype is 2n = 18, FN = 32.

distribution

Osgood's short-tailed opossum occurs in eastern Peru and central Bolivia .

Habitat and way of life

All evidence of Osgood's short-tailed opossum comes from medium and high altitudes. The species lives in primary mountain forests . It has not yet been observed in secondary forests or outside the forest. Although Osgood's short-tailed opossum can climb well, it usually hangs out on the ground. The diet consists of small rodents, insects, carrion, seeds and fruits.

Systematics

James Kenneth Doutt (1905–1975) described Osgood's short-tailed opossum in 1938 as a subspecies of Monodelphus peruvianus . Ángel Cabrera synonymized Monodelphus peruvianus in 1958 with the Marajo shrew pouch rat ( Monodelphis adusta ) and classified Osgood's short-tailed opossum as its subspecies. Charles Overtoil Handley classified it as a separate species in 1966.

literature

  • John Frederick Eisenberg, Kent Hubbard Redford: Mammals of the Neotropics: The southern cone: Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay . Volume 3. University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 978-022-670-682-5 : p. 72-73
  • Gardner, AL 2007. Order Didelphimorphia. In: AL Gardner (ed.), Mammals of South America , p. 669. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA.
  • Nowak, RM 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World . The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA and London, UK.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doutt, JK 1938. Two new mammals from South America. Journal of Mammalogy 19: p. 100-101
  2. ↑ Cabrera, Angel. 1958. Catálogo de los mamíferos de América del Sur, I. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia,” In: Ciencias Zoológicas 4: pp.1-307.
  3. ↑ Handley, Charles. 1966. Checklist of the Mammals of Panama . In Ectoparasites of Panama , Wenzel and Tipton (eds.): P. 753-796. Chicago, Illinois: Field Museum of Natural History.

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