Peruvian short-tailed opossum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Didelphimorphia |
Family: | Didelphidae |
Genus: | Monodelphis |
Species: | M. peruviana
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Binomial name | |
Monodelphis peruviana |
The Peruvian short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis peruviana) is a species of marsupial in the family Didelphidae [1].It is found in Bolivia and Peru. [1]
This species was initially described as Peramys peruvianus by Wilfred H. Osgood in 1913. [2] It was later placed in the genus Monodelphis and was included under the species M. adusta ( sepia short-tailed opossum) by Cabrera (1958). [3] S. Solari (2004), while comparing and revising diagnoses of specimens of the species M. adusta with Monodelphis ronaldi sp. nov., found that Monodelphis adusta peruvianus was differentiable from M. adusta; having a shorter head-body length but longer dorsal hair than M. adusta. [3]