Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus 1758 Large and medium-sized mammals of Buenaventura Reserve, southwestern Ecuador Torres-Porras, Jeronimo Cobos, Marlon E Seoane, José Manuel Aguirre, Nikolay Check List 2017 2017-07-11 13 4 35 45 35WKD Linnaeus, 1758 Linnaeus 1758 [168,580,1670,1694] Mammalia Didelphidae Didelphis Animalia Didelphimorphia 6 41 Chordata species marsupialis    Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus 1758— Tirira 2007, Astua de Moraes et al. 2016.  Material examined: Table 1. Dorsal pelage consists of two typesof 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).