WATER OPOSSUM Chironectes minimus (Zimmermann, 1780) (LC)

MZUT T428 (MACUT 7718); skull; unsexed ad.; Brazil; 24/IX/1914; donation by Alfonso Bovero.

Remarks: Professor Alfonso Bovero (1872-1937) was an Italian medical doctor. In 1912 he moved to Brazil where he got the chair of anatomy and histology at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of São Paulo University. He was also the founder of the Anatomy museum of the São Paulo University.