Philander opossum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Alfred L. Gardner, 1993, Order Didelphimorphia, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 15-23 : 22

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scientific name	Philander opossum (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Philander opossum (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:55.

TYPE LOCALITY: "America;" restricted to Surinam by J. A. Allen (1900) and further restricted to Paramaribo, Surinam, by Matschie (1916) .

DISTRIBUTION: Tamaulipas, México, through Central and South America to Paraguay and NE Argentina.

SYNONYMS: azaricus Thomas, 1923; canus Osgood, 1913; crucialis Thomas, 1923; frenata Olfers, 1818; fuscogriseus J. A. Allen, 1900; grisescens J. A. Allen, 1901; melantho Thomas, 1923; melanurus Thomas, 1899; pallidus J. A. Allen, 1901; quica Temminck, 1824; superciliaris Olfers, 1818; virginianus Tiedemann, 1808 .

COMMENTS: Corbet and Hill (1980), Hall (1981), Husson (1978), and Pine (1973) used Metachirops opossum for this species.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Didelphimorphia
Family	Didelphidae
Genus	Philander