Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758

Torres-Porras, Jeronimo, Cobos, Marlon E, Seoane, José Manuel & Aguirre, Nikolay, 2017, Large and medium-sized mammals of Buenaventura Reserve, southwestern Ecuador, Check List 13 (4), pp. 35-45 : 41

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15560/13.4.35
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scientific name	Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758
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Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL

Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus 1758 View in CoL — Tirira 2007, Astua de Moraes

et al. 2016.

Material examined: Table 1.

Dorsal pelage consists of two types of hair, one abundant, short, soft, woolly and clear, and another long and rough, black or white, which appears intermixed with small hairs; its dorsal coloration is black to gray; head yellowish-black to dirty white, sometimes with a black line not well-defined extending from the crown to the height of the eyes; tail a little longer than head and body combined, nude, black at the base and white towards the tip ( Tirira 2007).