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title="Pocarǣt – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Pocarǣt" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85" title="أبسوم – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="أبسوم" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykur%E1%BA%BD" title="Mykurẽ – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Mykurẽ" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossumlar" title="Opossumlar – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Opossumlar" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%83%D0%BC%D1%8B" title="Апосумы – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Апосумы" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8" title="Опосумови – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Опосумови" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oposom" title="Oposom – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Oposom" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%B2ssums" title="Opòssums – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Opòssums" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didelphidae" title="Didelphidae – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Didelphidae" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Va%C4%8Dice" title="Vačice – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Vačice" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oposwm" title="Oposwm – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Oposwm" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pungrotter" title="Pungrotter – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Pungrotter" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beutelratten" title="Beutelratten – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Beutelratten" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nv mw-list-item"><a href="https://nv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biy%C3%A1zh%C3%AD_neiy%C3%A9h%C3%A9_d%C3%B3%C3%B3_bik%CA%BC%C3%A9%C3%AD" title="Biyázhí neiyéhé dóó bikʼéí – Navajo" lang="nv" hreflang="nv" data-title="Biyázhí neiyéhé dóó bikʼéí" data-language-autonym="Diné bizaad" data-language-local-name="Navajo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Diné bizaad</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossumlased" title="Opossumlased – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Opossumlased" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CF%80%CF%8C%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BC" title="Οπόσουμ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Οπόσουμ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didelphidae" title="Didelphidae – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Didelphidae" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didelfedoj" title="Didelfedoj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Didelfedoj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didelphidae" title="Didelphidae – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Didelphidae" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%BA" title="صاریغ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="صاریغ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didelphidae" title="Didelphidae – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Didelphidae" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apasam" title="Apasam – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Apasam" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum" title="Opossum – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Opossum" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Did%C3%A9lfidos" title="Didélfidos – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Didélfidos" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A3%BC%EB%A8%B8%EB%8B%88%EC%A5%90" title="주머니쥐 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="주머니쥐" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8A%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B4%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AF" title="Պարկամուկ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Պարկամուկ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%93%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE" title="ओपोस्सम – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="ओपोस्सम" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didelfo" title="Didelfo – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Didelfo" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oposum" title="Oposum – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Oposum" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokarottur" title="Pokarottur – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Pokarottur" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didelphidae" title="Didelphidae – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Didelphidae" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D" title="אופוסומיים – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אופוסומיים" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%92%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%82" title="ಒಪಾಸಂ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಒಪಾಸಂ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9E%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="ოპოსუმისებრნი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ოპოსუმისებრნი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Опоссумдар – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Опоссумдар" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oposumu" title="Oposumu – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Oposumu" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-avk mw-list-item"><a href="https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueskol_(Didelphidae)" title="Tueskol (Didelphidae) – Kotava" lang="avk" hreflang="avk" data-title="Tueskol (Didelphidae)" data-language-autonym="Kotava" data-language-local-name="Kotava" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kotava</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oposumu_dzimta" title="Oposumu dzimta – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Oposumu dzimta" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oposumai" title="Oposumai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Oposumai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didelfimorfo" title="Didelfimorfo – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Didelfimorfo" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingua Franca Nova</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oposszumok" title="Oposszumok – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Oposszumok" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%83%D0%BC" title="Опосум – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Опосум" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%92%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%82" title="ഒപ്പോസം – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഒപ്പോസം" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didelphidae" title="Didelphidae – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Didelphidae" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85" title="ابسوم – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ابسوم" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oposum" title="Oposum – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Oposum" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%A1%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%95%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AB%E1%80%B7%E1%80%86%E1%80%99%E1%80%BA%E1%80%80%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA" title="အိုပေါ့ဆမ်ကောင် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="အိုပေါ့ဆမ်ကောင်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a 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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Family of mammals</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the Australasian marsupials known as "possums", see <a href="/wiki/Phalangeriformes" title="Phalangeriformes">Phalangeriformes</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Opossum_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Opossum (disambiguation)">Opossum (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <table class="infobox biota" style="text-align: left; width: 200px; font-size: 100%"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)">Didelphidae<sup id="cite_ref-msw3_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-msw3-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><div style="font-size: 85%;">Temporal range: <span class="noprint"><span style="display:inline-block;"></span><span style="display:inline-block;">Early Miocene – Recent</span> <span style="display:inline-block;"></span><div id="Timeline-row" style="margin: 4px auto 0; clear:both; width:220px; padding:0px; height:18px; overflow:visible; white-space:nowrap; border:1px #666; border-style:solid none; position:relative; z-index:0; font-size:97%;"> <div style="position:absolute; height:100%; left:0px; width:207.23076923077px; padding-left:5px; text-align:left; background-color:rgb(254,217,106); background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255,255,255,1), rgba(254,217,106,1) 15%, rgba(254,217,106,1));"><a href="/wiki/Precambrian" title="Precambrian">PreꞒ</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; height:100%; text-align:center; background-color:rgb(127,160,86); left:37.636923076923px; width:17.583076923077px;"><a href="/wiki/Cambrian" title="Cambrian">Ꞓ</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; height:100%; text-align:center; background-color:rgb(0,146,112); left:55.22px; width:14.807692307692px;"><a href="/wiki/Ordovician" title="Ordovician">O</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; height:100%; text-align:center; background-color:rgb(179,225,182); left:70.027692307692px; width:7.9470769230769px;"><a href="/wiki/Silurian" title="Silurian">S</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; height:100%; text-align:center; background-color:rgb(203,140,55); left:77.974769230769px; width:20.564923076923px;"><a href="/wiki/Devonian" title="Devonian">D</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; height:100%; text-align:center; background-color:rgb(103,165,153); left:98.539692307692px; width:20.294153846154px;"><a href="/wiki/Carboniferous" title="Carboniferous">C</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; height:100%; text-align:center; background-color:rgb(240,64,40); left:118.83384615385px; width:15.907015384615px;"><a href="/wiki/Permian" title="Permian">P</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; height:100%; text-align:center; background-color:rgb(129,43,146); left:134.74086153846px; width:17.092984615385px;"><a href="/wiki/Triassic" title="Triassic">T</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; height:100%; text-align:center; background-color:rgb(52,178,201); left:151.83384615385px; width:19.732307692308px;"><a href="/wiki/Jurassic" title="Jurassic">J</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; height:100%; text-align:center; background-color:rgb(127,198,78); left:171.56615384615px; width:26.095384615385px;"><a href="/wiki/Cretaceous" title="Cretaceous">K</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; height:100%; text-align:center; background-color:rgb(253,154,82); left:197.66153846154px; width:14.540307692308px;"><a href="/wiki/Paleogene" title="Paleogene">Pg</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; height:100%; text-align:center; background-color:rgb(255,230,25); left:212.20184615385px; width:6.9249230769231px;"><a href="/wiki/Neogene" title="Neogene">N</a></div> <div id="end-border" style="position:absolute; height:100%; background-color:#666; width:1px; left:219px"></div><div style="margin:0 auto; line-height:0; clear:both; width:220px; padding:0px; height:8px; overflow:visible; background-color:transparent; position:relative; top:-4px; z-index:100;"><div style="position:absolute; height:8px; left:212.20184615385px; width:7.7981538461538px; background-color:#360; opacity:0.42;"></div> <div style="position:absolute; height:8px; left:212.20184615385px; width:7.7981538461538px; background-color:#360; opacity:1;"></div> <div style="position:absolute; height:6px; top:1px; left:213.20184615385px; width:5.7981538461538px; background-color:#6c3;"></div> </div> </div></span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: center"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Didelphis_virginiana_with_young.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Didelphis_virginiana_with_young.JPG/220px-Didelphis_virginiana_with_young.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Didelphis_virginiana_with_young.JPG/330px-Didelphis_virginiana_with_young.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Didelphis_virginiana_with_young.JPG/440px-Didelphis_virginiana_with_young.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 88%"><a href="/wiki/Virginia_opossum" title="Virginia opossum">Virginia opossum</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Didelphis" title="Didelphis">Didelphis</a> virginiana</i>, the only U.S. and Canadian species (mother with nine young) </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; min-width:15em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)"><a href="/wiki/Taxonomy_(biology)" title="Taxonomy (biology)">Scientific classification</a> <span class="plainlinks taxobox-edit-taxonomy skin-invert" style="font-size:smaller; float:right; padding-right:0.4em; margin-left:-3em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Template:Taxonomy/Didelphidae" title="Edit this classification"><img alt="Edit this classification" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg/23px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg/30px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></span> </th></tr> <tr> <td>Domain: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eukaryote" title="Eukaryote">Eukaryota</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Kingdom: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Animal" title="Animal">Animalia</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Phylum: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chordate" title="Chordate">Chordata</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Class: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mammal" title="Mammal">Mammalia</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Infraclass: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Marsupial" title="Marsupial">Marsupialia</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Superorder: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ameridelphia" title="Ameridelphia">Ameridelphia</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Order: </td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Didelphimorphia</a><br /><small><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Nicholas_Gill" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodore Nicholas Gill">Gill</a>, 1872</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Family: </td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Didelphidae</a><br /><small><a href="/wiki/John_Edward_Gray" title="John Edward Gray">J. E. Gray</a>, 1821</small> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)"><a href="/wiki/Type_genus" title="Type genus">Type genus</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: center"><i><a href="/wiki/Didelphis" title="Didelphis">Didelphis</a></i><br /><div style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus" title="Carl Linnaeus">Linnaeus</a>, 1758</div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)">Genera </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: left"> <p>Several; see <a href="#Classification">text</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)"><a href="/wiki/Biodiversity" title="Biodiversity">Diversity</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: center">126 species </td></tr> </tbody></table><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238732961">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota tr{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota img{background:transparent}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota tr{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota img{background:white}}.mw-parser-output .infobox.biota .taxobox-edit-taxonomy img{background:transparent!important}body.skin-vector .mw-parser-output table.biota.infobox{margin-top:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output table.biota.infobox tr.taxonrow td{padding:2px 10px}</style> <p><b>Opossums</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span></span>/</a></span></span>) are members of the <a href="/wiki/Marsupial" title="Marsupial">marsupial</a> order <b>Didelphimorphia</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ɔːr/: 'ar' in 'war'">ɔːr</span><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span><span title="/i/: 'y' in 'happy'">i</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span>) <a href="/wiki/Endemism" title="Endemism">endemic</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Americas" title="Americas">Americas</a>. The largest order of marsupials in the <a href="/wiki/Western_Hemisphere" title="Western Hemisphere">Western Hemisphere</a>, it comprises 126 species in 18 <a href="/wiki/Genus" title="Genus">genera</a>. Opossums originated in <a href="/wiki/South_America" title="South America">South America</a> and entered <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Great_American_Interchange" title="Great American Interchange">Great American Interchange</a> following the connection of North and South America in the late <a href="/wiki/Cenozoic" title="Cenozoic">Cenozoic</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Virginia_opossum" title="Virginia opossum">Virginia opossum</a> is the only species found in the United States and Canada. It is often simply referred to as an <b>opossum</b>, and in North America it is commonly referred to as a <b>possum</b><sup id="cite_ref-NationalGeographic_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NationalGeographic-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/əm/: 'm' in 'rhythm'">əm</span></span>/</a></span></span>; sometimes rendered as <i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>possum</i> in written form to indicate the dropped "o"). The <a href="/wiki/Australasian_realm" title="Australasian realm">Australasian</a> arboreal marsupials of suborder <a href="/wiki/Phalangeriformes" title="Phalangeriformes">Phalangeriformes</a> are also called possums because of their resemblance to opossums, but they belong to a different order. The opossum is typically a nonaggressive animal and almost never carries the virus that causes <a href="/wiki/Rabies" title="Rabies">rabies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Opossum&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The word <i>opossum</i> is derived from the <a href="/wiki/Powhatan_language" title="Powhatan language">Powhatan language</a> and was first recorded between 1607 and 1611 by <a href="/wiki/John_Smith_(explorer)" title="John Smith (explorer)">John Smith</a> (as <i>opassom</i>) and <a href="/wiki/William_Strachey" title="William Strachey">William Strachey</a> (as <i>aposoum</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Possum</i> was first recorded in 1613. Both men encountered the language at the English settlement of <a href="/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia" title="Jamestown, Virginia">Jamestown, Virginia</a>, which Smith helped to found and where Strachey later served as its first secretary.<sup id="cite_ref-Siebert_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Siebert-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Strachey's notes describe the opossum as a "beast in bigness of a pig and in taste alike," while Smith recorded it "hath an head like a swine ... tail like a rat ... of the bigness of a cat."<sup id="cite_ref-Siebert_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Siebert-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Powhatan word ultimately derives from a <a href="/wiki/Proto-Algonquian_language" title="Proto-Algonquian language">Proto-Algonquian</a> word (<i>*wa·p-aʔθemwa</i>) meaning "white dog or dog-like beast."<sup id="cite_ref-Siebert_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Siebert-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the arrival of Europeans in <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, the term <i>possum</i> was borrowed to describe distantly related <a href="/wiki/Australidelphia" title="Australidelphia">Australian marsupials</a> of the suborder <a href="/wiki/Phalangeriformes" title="Phalangeriformes">Phalangeriformes</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which are more closely related to other Australian marsupials such as kangaroos. </p><p>Didelphimorphia comes from the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> words for "two" (<i>di</i>) and "wombs" (<i>delphus</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Evolution">Evolution</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Opossum&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Evolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Opossums are often considered to be "<a href="/wiki/Living_fossil" title="Living fossil">living fossils</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-Krause_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Krause-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and as a result they are often used to approximate the ancestral <a href="/wiki/Theria" title="Theria">therian</a> condition in comparative studies.<sup id="cite_ref-Krause_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Krause-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But this is a mistake, because the oldest opossum fossils are from a more recent epoch, the early <a href="/wiki/Miocene" title="Miocene">Miocene</a> (roughly 20 million years ago).<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last common ancestor of all living opossums dates approximately to the <a href="/wiki/Oligocene" title="Oligocene">Oligocene</a>-Miocene boundary (23 million years ago) and is at most no older than Oligocene in age.<sup id="cite_ref-Jansa2014_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jansa2014-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BeckTaglioretti_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BeckTaglioretti-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many extinct metatherians, such as <i><a href="/wiki/Alphadon" title="Alphadon">Alphadon</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Peradectes" title="Peradectes">Peradectes</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Herpetotherium" title="Herpetotherium">Herpetotherium</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Pucadelphys" title="Pucadelphys">Pucadelphys</a></i>, were once considered to be early opossums, but it has since been recognized that this was solely on the basis of <a href="/wiki/Plesiomorphies" class="mw-redirect" title="Plesiomorphies">plesiomorphies</a>; they are now considered to belong to older branches of <a href="/wiki/Metatheria" title="Metatheria">Metatheria</a> that are only distantly related to modern opossums. </p><p>Opossums probably originated in the <a href="/wiki/Amazon_rainforest" title="Amazon rainforest">Amazonia</a> region of northern South America, where they began their initial diversification.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were minor components of South American mammal faunas until the late Miocene, when they began to diversify rapidly.<sup id="cite_ref-Jansa2014_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jansa2014-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before that time, the <a href="/wiki/Ecological_niches" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecological niches">ecological niches</a> presently occupied by opossums were occupied by other groups of metatherians such as <a href="/wiki/Paucituberculata" title="Paucituberculata">paucituberculatans</a><sup id="cite_ref-Engelman2017_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Engelman2017-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Sparassodonts" class="mw-redirect" title="Sparassodonts">sparassodonts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BeckTaglioretti_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BeckTaglioretti-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EngelmanCroft2014_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EngelmanCroft2014-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Engelman2018_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Engelman2018-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Large opossums like <i><a href="/wiki/Didelphis" title="Didelphis">Didelphis</a></i> show a pattern of gradually increasing in size over geologic time as <a href="/wiki/Sparassodont" class="mw-redirect" title="Sparassodont">sparassodont</a> diversity declined.<sup id="cite_ref-EngelmanCroft2014_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EngelmanCroft2014-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Engelman2018_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Engelman2018-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several groups of opossums, including <i>Thylophorops</i>, <i>Thylatheridium</i>, <i>Hyperdidelphys</i>, and sparassocynids developed carnivorous adaptations during the late Miocene-<a href="/wiki/Pliocene" title="Pliocene">Pliocene</a>, before the arrival of <a href="/wiki/Carnivorans" class="mw-redirect" title="Carnivorans">carnivorans</a> in South America. Most of these groups, with the exception of <i><a href="/wiki/Lutreolina" title="Lutreolina">Lutreolina</a></i>, are now extinct.<sup id="cite_ref-hyperdidelphys_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hyperdidelphys-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has been suggested that the size and shape of the ancestral didelphid's jaw would most closely match that of the modern <i>Marmosa</i> genus.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characteristics">Characteristics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Opossum&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monodelphis_domestica_skeleton_-_ZooKeys_465-10.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Monodelphis_domestica_skeleton_-_ZooKeys_465-10.png/220px-Monodelphis_domestica_skeleton_-_ZooKeys_465-10.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Monodelphis_domestica_skeleton_-_ZooKeys_465-10.png/330px-Monodelphis_domestica_skeleton_-_ZooKeys_465-10.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Monodelphis_domestica_skeleton_-_ZooKeys_465-10.png/440px-Monodelphis_domestica_skeleton_-_ZooKeys_465-10.png 2x" data-file-width="1512" data-file-height="942" /></a><figcaption>Skeleton of the <a href="/wiki/Gray_short-tailed_opossum" title="Gray short-tailed opossum">gray short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis domestica</i>)</figcaption></figure> <p>Didelphimorphs are small to medium-sized marsupials that grow to the size of a house cat. They tend to be semi-<a href="/wiki/Arboreal" class="mw-redirect" title="Arboreal">arboreal</a> <a href="/wiki/Omnivore" title="Omnivore">omnivores</a>, although there are many exceptions. Most members of this order have long <a href="/wiki/Snout" title="Snout">snouts</a>, a narrow <a href="/wiki/Cranium" class="mw-redirect" title="Cranium">braincase</a>, and a prominent <a href="/wiki/Sagittal_crest" title="Sagittal crest">sagittal crest</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Dental_formula" class="mw-redirect" title="Dental formula">dental formula</a> is: <span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block; vertical-align:-0.5em; font-size:85%; text-align:center;"><span style="display:block; line-height:1em; padding:0 0.1em;" title="upper dentition: Incisors.Canines.Premolars.Molars">5.1.3.4</span><span style="display:block; line-height:1em; padding:0 0.1em; border-top:1px solid;" title="lower dentition: Incisors.Canines.Premolars.Molars">4.1.3.4</span></span> × 2 = 50</span> teeth. By <a href="/wiki/Mammal" title="Mammal">mammalian</a> standards, this is an unusually full jaw. The incisors are very small, the canines large, and the molars are <a href="/wiki/Dental_anatomy#Cusp" title="Dental anatomy">tricuspid</a>. </p><p>Didelphimorphs have a <a href="/wiki/Plantigrade" title="Plantigrade">plantigrade</a> stance (feet flat on the ground) and the hind <a href="/wiki/Foot" title="Foot">feet</a> have an <a href="/wiki/Thumb" title="Thumb">opposable digit</a> with no <a href="/wiki/Claw" title="Claw">claw</a>. Like some <a href="/wiki/New_World_monkey" title="New World monkey">New World monkeys</a>, some opossums have <a href="/wiki/Prehensility" title="Prehensility">prehensile tails</a>. Like most marsupials, many females have a pouch. The tail and parts of the feet bear <a href="/wiki/Scute" title="Scute">scutes</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Stomach" title="Stomach">stomach</a> is simple, with a small <a href="/wiki/Cecum" title="Cecum">cecum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Krause_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Krause-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like most marsupials, the male opossum has a forked <a href="/wiki/Penis" title="Penis">penis</a> bearing twin <a href="/wiki/Glans_penis" title="Glans penis">glandes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Krause_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Krause-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although all living opossums are essentially opportunistic <a href="/wiki/Omnivores" class="mw-redirect" title="Omnivores">omnivores</a>, different species vary in the amount of meat and vegetation they include in their diet. Members of the <a href="/wiki/Caluromyinae" title="Caluromyinae">Caluromyinae</a> are essentially <a href="/wiki/Frugivorous" class="mw-redirect" title="Frugivorous">frugivorous</a>; whereas the <a href="/wiki/Lutrine_opossum" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutrine opossum">lutrine opossum</a> and <a href="/wiki/Patagonian_opossum" title="Patagonian opossum">Patagonian opossum</a> primarily feed on other animals.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Water_opossum" title="Water opossum">water opossum</a> or yapok (<i>Chironectes minimus</i>) is particularly unusual, as it is the only living semi-aquatic marsupial, using its webbed hindlimbs to dive in search of freshwater mollusks and crayfish.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The extinct <i><a href="/wiki/Thylophorops" title="Thylophorops">Thylophorops</a></i>, the largest known opossum at 4–7 kg (8.8–15.4 lb), was a macropredator.<sup id="cite_ref-Goin_2009_35–46_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goin_2009_35–46-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most opossums are <a href="/wiki/Scansorial" class="mw-redirect" title="Scansorial">scansorial</a>, well-adapted to life in the trees or on the ground, but members of the <a href="/wiki/Caluromyinae" title="Caluromyinae">Caluromyinae</a> and <a href="/wiki/Glironia" class="mw-redirect" title="Glironia">Glironiinae</a> are primarily arboreal, whereas species of <i><a href="/wiki/Metachirus" class="mw-redirect" title="Metachirus">Metachirus</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Monodelphis" class="mw-redirect" title="Monodelphis">Monodelphis</a></i>, and to a lesser degree <i><a href="/wiki/Didelphis" title="Didelphis">Didelphis</a></i> show adaptations for life on the ground.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Metachirus_nudicaudatus" class="mw-redirect" title="Metachirus nudicaudatus">Metachirus nudicaudatus</a></i>, found in the upper <a href="/wiki/Amazon_basin" title="Amazon basin">Amazon basin</a>, consumes fruit seeds, small <a href="/wiki/Vertebrate" title="Vertebrate">vertebrate</a> creatures like birds and reptiles and <a href="/wiki/Invertebrate" title="Invertebrate">invertebrates</a> like <a href="/wiki/Crayfish" title="Crayfish">crayfish</a> and <a href="/wiki/Snail" title="Snail">snails</a>, but seems to be mainly <a href="/wiki/Insectivorous" class="mw-redirect" title="Insectivorous">insectivorous</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Opossum_(Mar_2021).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Opossum_%28Mar_2021%29.jpg/220px-Opossum_%28Mar_2021%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Opossum_%28Mar_2021%29.jpg/330px-Opossum_%28Mar_2021%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Opossum_%28Mar_2021%29.jpg/440px-Opossum_%28Mar_2021%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2665" data-file-height="1968" /></a><figcaption>Virginia opossum on top of a fence</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reproduction_and_life_cycle">Reproduction and life cycle</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Opossum&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reproduction and life cycle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Marsupial#Reproductive_system" title="Marsupial">Marsupial § Reproductive system</a></div> <p>As marsupials, female opossums have a reproductive system that includes a bifurcated <a href="/wiki/Vagina" title="Vagina">vagina</a> and a divided <a href="/wiki/Uterus" title="Uterus">uterus</a>; many have a <a href="/wiki/Pouch_(marsupial)" title="Pouch (marsupial)">pouch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The average estrous cycle of the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_opossum" title="Virginia opossum">Virginia opossum</a> is about 28 days.<sup id="cite_ref-Opossum_Society_of_the_United_States_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Opossum_Society_of_the_United_States-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Opossums do possess a <a href="/wiki/Placenta" title="Placenta">placenta</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Enders2005_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Enders2005-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but it is short-lived, simple in structure, and, unlike that of placental mammals, not fully functional.<sup id="cite_ref-Krause1985_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Krause1985-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The young are therefore born at a very early stage, although the <a href="/wiki/Gestation" title="Gestation">gestation</a> period is similar to that of many other small marsupials, at only 12 to 14 days.<sup id="cite_ref-EoM_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EoM-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They give birth to litters of up to 20 young.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Once born, the offspring must find their way into the marsupium, if present, to hold on to and nurse from a teat. Baby opossums, like their Australian cousins, are called joeys.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Female opossums often give birth to very large numbers of young, most of which fail to attach to a <a href="/wiki/Teat" title="Teat">teat</a>, although as many as 13 young can attach,<sup id="cite_ref-smithsonian_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smithsonian-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and therefore survive, depending on species. The young are <a href="/wiki/Weaning" title="Weaning">weaned</a> between 70 and 125 days, when they detach from the teat and leave the pouch. The opossum lifespan is unusually short for a mammal of its size, usually only one to two years in the wild and as long as four or more years in captivity. <a href="/wiki/Senescence" title="Senescence">Senescence</a> is rapid.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Opossums are moderately <a href="/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism" title="Sexual dimorphism">sexually dimorphic</a> with males usually being larger, heavier, and having larger <a href="/wiki/Canine_tooth" title="Canine tooth">canines</a> than females.<sup id="cite_ref-smithsonian_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smithsonian-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The largest difference between the opossum and non-marsupial mammals is the bifurcated penis of the male and bifurcated vagina of the female (the source of the term <i>didelphimorph</i>, from the Greek <i>didelphys</i>, meaning "double-wombed").<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Opossum spermatozoa exhibit sperm-pairing, forming conjugate pairs in the <a href="/wiki/Epididymis" title="Epididymis">epididymis</a>. This may ensure that <a href="/wiki/Flagella" class="mw-redirect" title="Flagella">flagella</a> movement can be accurately coordinated for maximal <a href="/wiki/Motility" title="Motility">motility</a>. Conjugate pairs dissociate into separate spermatozoa before fertilization.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Behavior">Behavior</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Opossum&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Behavior"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Opossum2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Opossum2.jpg/220px-Opossum2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Opossum2.jpg/330px-Opossum2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Opossum2.jpg/440px-Opossum2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="873" data-file-height="506" /></a><figcaption>Virginia opossum <a href="/wiki/Apparent_death" title="Apparent death">feigning death</a>, or "playing possum"</figcaption></figure> <p>Opossums are usually solitary and nomadic, staying in one area as long as food and water are easily available. Some families will group together in ready-made burrows or even under houses. Though they will temporarily occupy abandoned burrows, they do not dig or put much effort into building their own. As nocturnal animals, they favor dark, secure areas. These areas may be below ground or above.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Baby_opossum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Baby_opossum.jpg/220px-Baby_opossum.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="351" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Baby_opossum.jpg/330px-Baby_opossum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Baby_opossum.jpg/440px-Baby_opossum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1190" data-file-height="1896" /></a><figcaption>Juvenile Virginia opossum hissing defensively</figcaption></figure> <p>When threatened or harmed, they will "<a href="/wiki/Apparent_death" title="Apparent death">play possum</a>", mimicking the appearance and smell of a sick or dead animal. This physiological response is involuntary (like fainting), rather than a conscious act. In the case of baby opossums, however, the brain does not always react this way at the appropriate moment, and therefore they often fail to "play dead" when threatened. When an opossum is "playing possum", the animal's lips are drawn back, the teeth are bared, saliva foams around the mouth, the eyes close or half-close, and a foul-smelling fluid is secreted from the <a href="/wiki/Anal_glands" class="mw-redirect" title="Anal glands">anal glands</a>. The stiff, curled form can be prodded, turned over, and even carried away without reaction. The animal will typically regain consciousness after a period of a few minutes to four hours, a process that begins with a slight twitching of the ears.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some species of opossums have <a href="/wiki/Prehensile_tail" title="Prehensile tail">prehensile tails</a>, although dangling by the tail is more common among juveniles. An opossum may also use its tail as a brace and a fifth limb when climbing. The tail is occasionally used as a grip to carry bunches of leaves or bedding materials to the nest.<sup id="cite_ref-GonzálezClaramunt2000_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GonzálezClaramunt2000-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A mother will sometimes carry her young upon her back, where they will cling tightly even when she is climbing or running. </p><p>Threatened opossums (especially males) will growl deeply, raising their pitch as the threat becomes more urgent. Males make a clicking "smack" noise out of the side of their mouths as they wander in search of a mate, and females will sometimes repeat the sound in return. When separated or distressed, baby opossums will make a sneezing noise to signal their mother. The mother in return makes a clicking sound and waits for the baby to find her. If threatened, the baby will open its mouth and quietly hiss until the threat is gone.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Diet">Diet</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Opossum&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Diet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Opossums eat insects, <a href="/wiki/Rodent" title="Rodent">rodents</a>, birds, eggs, frogs, plants, fruits and grain. Some species may eat the skeletal remains of rodents and <a href="/wiki/Roadkill" title="Roadkill">roadkill</a> animals to fulfill their calcium requirements.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In captivity, opossums will eat practically anything including dog and cat food, livestock fodder and discarded human food scraps and waste. </p><p>Many large opossums (Didelphini) are immune to the venom of rattlesnakes and pit vipers (<a href="/wiki/Crotalinae" class="mw-redirect" title="Crotalinae">Crotalinae</a>) and regularly prey upon these snakes.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This adaptation seems to be unique to the Didelphini, as their closest relative, the <a href="/wiki/Brown_four-eyed_opossum" title="Brown four-eyed opossum">brown four-eyed opossum</a>, is not immune to snake venom.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similar adaptations are seen in other small predatory mammals such as <a href="/wiki/Mongooses" class="mw-redirect" title="Mongooses">mongooses</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hedgehogs" class="mw-redirect" title="Hedgehogs">hedgehogs</a>. Didelphin opossums and crotaline vipers have been suggested to be in an <a href="/wiki/Evolutionary_arms_race" title="Evolutionary arms race">evolutionary arms race</a>. Some authors have suggested that this adaptation originally arose as a defense mechanism, allowing a rare reversal of an evolutionary arms race where the former prey has become the predator,<sup id="cite_ref-Voss2013_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Voss2013-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> whereas others have suggested it arose as a predatory adaptation given that it also occurs in other predatory mammals and does not occur in opossums that do not regularly eat other vertebrates.<sup id="cite_ref-Engelman2017_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Engelman2017-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Bothrops" title="Bothrops">fer-de-lance</a>, one of the most venomous snakes in the <a href="/wiki/New_World" title="New World">New World</a>, may have developed its highly potent venom as a means to prey on or a defense mechanism against large opossums.<sup id="cite_ref-Voss2013_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Voss2013-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Habitat">Habitat</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Opossum&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Habitat"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Virginia_Opossum_range.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Virginia_Opossum_range.png/220px-Virginia_Opossum_range.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Virginia_Opossum_range.png/330px-Virginia_Opossum_range.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Virginia_Opossum_range.png 2x" data-file-width="388" data-file-height="287" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Didelphis_virginiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Didelphis virginiana">D. virginiana</a></i> range, including introductions in the west. These areas expanded northwards (e.g., into Wisconsin and Minnesota).<sup id="cite_ref-Gardner2003_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gardner2003-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Opossums are found in North, Central, and <a href="/wiki/South_America" title="South America">South America</a>. The Virginia opossum lives in regions as far north as <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> and as far south as Central America, while other types of opossums only inhabit countries south of the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Virginia opossum can often be found in wooded areas, though its habitat may vary widely.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Opossums are generally found in areas like forests, shrubland, mangrove swamps, rainforests and eucalyptus forests.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Opossums have been found moving northward.<sup id="cite_ref-Gardner2003_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gardner2003-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hunting_and_foodways">Hunting and foodways</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Opossum&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Hunting and foodways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Until the early 20th century, the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_opossum" title="Virginia opossum">Virginia opossum</a> was widely hunted and consumed in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Apicius2012_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Apicius2012-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Opossum farms have been operated in the United States in the past.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sweet potatoes were eaten together with the opossum in the American South.<sup id="cite_ref-Jones2007_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jones2007-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1909, a <a href="/wiki/Frank_Park#Political_activity_and_election" title="Frank Park">"Possum and 'Taters" banquet</a> was held in <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a> to honor President-elect <a href="/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" title="William Howard Taft">William Howard Taft</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Clash_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Clash-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Worth_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Worth-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> South Carolina cuisine includes opossum,<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and President <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a> hunted opossums<sup id="cite_ref-Carter1995_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carter1995-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Raum2011_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Raum2011-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in addition to other small game.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Dominica" title="Dominica">Dominica</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grenada" title="Grenada">Grenada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trinidad" title="Trinidad">Trinidad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Lucia" title="Saint Lucia">Saint Lucia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines" title="Saint Vincent and the Grenadines">Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Common_opossum" title="Common opossum">common opossum</a> or <i>manicou</i> is popular and can only be hunted during certain times of the year owing to overhunting.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The meat is traditionally prepared by smoking, then stewing. It is light and fine-grained, but the musk glands must be removed as part of preparation. The meat can be used in place of rabbit and chicken in recipes. Historically, hunters in the Caribbean would place a barrel with fresh or rotten fruit to attract opossums that would feed on the fruit or insects. </p><p>In northern/central Mexico, opossums are known as <i>tlacuache</i> or <i>tlacuatzin</i>. Their tails are eaten as a <a href="/wiki/Alternative_medicine" title="Alternative medicine">folk remedy</a> to improve fertility.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Yucatán peninsula they are known in the <a href="/wiki/Yucatec_Maya_language" title="Yucatec Maya language">Yucatec Mayan language</a> as "och"<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and they are not considered part of the regular diet by Mayan people, but still considered edible in times of famine. </p><p>Opossum oil (possum grease) is high in <a href="/wiki/Essential_fatty_acid" title="Essential fatty acid">essential fatty acids</a> and has been used as a chest rub and a carrier for <a href="/wiki/Arthritis" title="Arthritis">arthritis</a> remedies given as salves.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Opossum pelts have long been part of the <a href="/wiki/Fur_trade" title="Fur trade">fur trade</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Classification">Classification</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Opossum&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Classification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote 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class="mw-redirect" title="Hyladelphys">Hyladelphys</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"><a href="/wiki/Didelphinae" title="Didelphinae">Didelphinae</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first">Marmosini </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Tlacuatzin" class="mw-redirect" title="Tlacuatzin">Tlacuatzin</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Marmosa" title="Marmosa">Marmosa</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Monodelphis" class="mw-redirect" title="Monodelphis">Monodelphis</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first">Metachirini </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Metachirus" class="mw-redirect" title="Metachirus">Metachirus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label">Didelphini </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Chironectes" class="mw-redirect" title="Chironectes">Chironectes</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Lutreolina" title="Lutreolina">Lutreolina</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Philander_(mammal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Philander (mammal)">Philander</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Didelphis" title="Didelphis">Didelphis</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first">Thylamyini </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Marmosops" title="Marmosops">Marmosops</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Cryptonanus" title="Cryptonanus">Cryptonanus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Gracilinanus" title="Gracilinanus">Gracilinanus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Lestodelphys" class="mw-redirect" title="Lestodelphys">Lestodelphys</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Thylamys" title="Thylamys">Thylamys</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table style="border: 1px solid #ccc; vertical-align: middle; width: 248px; margin:0.2em 0 0.2em 1em; float:right; clear:right;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; border: 0; padding: 0;">Cladogram by Álvarez-Carretero et al. 2022<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px"> <div class="clade"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade" style="font-size:90%;line-height:100%;width:350px;"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"><a href="/wiki/Caluromyinae" title="Caluromyinae">Caluromyinae</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Caluromysiops" class="mw-redirect" title="Caluromysiops">Caluromysiops</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Caluromys" class="mw-redirect" title="Caluromys">Caluromys</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"><a href="/wiki/Glironiinae" class="mw-redirect" title="Glironiinae">Glironiinae</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Glironia" class="mw-redirect" title="Glironia">Glironia</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"><a href="/wiki/Hyladelphinae" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyladelphinae">Hyladelphinae</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Hyladelphys" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyladelphys">Hyladelphys</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"><a href="/wiki/Didelphinae" title="Didelphinae">Didelphinae</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first">Marmosini </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Tlacuatzin" class="mw-redirect" title="Tlacuatzin">Tlacuatzin</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Marmosa" title="Marmosa">Marmosa</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Monodelphis" class="mw-redirect" title="Monodelphis">Monodelphis</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first">Didelphini </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Chironectes" class="mw-redirect" title="Chironectes">Chironectes</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Lutreolina" title="Lutreolina">Lutreolina</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Philander_(mammal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Philander (mammal)">Philander</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Didelphis" title="Didelphis">Didelphis</a></i> (incl. <i><a href="/wiki/Metachirus" class="mw-redirect" title="Metachirus">Metachirus</a></i>) </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label">Thylamyini </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Marmosops" title="Marmosops">Marmosops</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Gracilinanus" title="Gracilinanus">Gracilinanus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Cryptonanus" title="Cryptonanus">Cryptonanus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Lestodelphys" class="mw-redirect" title="Lestodelphys">Lestodelphys</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Thylamys" title="Thylamys">Thylamys</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Classification based on Voss (2022), species based on the <a href="/wiki/American_Society_of_Mammalogists" title="American Society of Mammalogists">American Society of Mammalogists</a> (2023)<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b>Family Didelphidae</b> <ul><li>Subfamily <a href="/wiki/Glironia" class="mw-redirect" title="Glironia">Glironiinae</a> <ul><li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Glironia" class="mw-redirect" title="Glironia">Glironia</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bushy-tailed_opossum" title="Bushy-tailed opossum">Bushy-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Glironia venusta</i>)</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Subfamily <a href="/wiki/Caluromyinae" title="Caluromyinae">Caluromyinae</a> <ul><li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Caluromys" class="mw-redirect" title="Caluromys">Caluromys</a></i> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cu%C3%ADca-lanosa.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Cu%C3%ADca-lanosa.jpg/220px-Cu%C3%ADca-lanosa.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Cu%C3%ADca-lanosa.jpg/330px-Cu%C3%ADca-lanosa.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Cu%C3%ADca-lanosa.jpg/440px-Cu%C3%ADca-lanosa.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5095" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bare-tailed_woolly_opossum" title="Bare-tailed woolly opossum">Bare-tailed woolly opossum</a>, <i>Caluromys philander</i></figcaption></figure><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Central_American_woolly_opossum_(Caluromys_derbianus)_male.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Central_American_woolly_opossum_%28Caluromys_derbianus%29_male.jpg/220px-Central_American_woolly_opossum_%28Caluromys_derbianus%29_male.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Central_American_woolly_opossum_%28Caluromys_derbianus%29_male.jpg/330px-Central_American_woolly_opossum_%28Caluromys_derbianus%29_male.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Central_American_woolly_opossum_%28Caluromys_derbianus%29_male.jpg/440px-Central_American_woolly_opossum_%28Caluromys_derbianus%29_male.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Derby%27s_woolly_opossum" title="Derby's woolly opossum">Derby's woolly opossum</a>, <i>Caluromys derbianus</i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Subgenus <i>Caluromys</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bare-tailed_woolly_opossum" title="Bare-tailed woolly opossum">Bare-tailed woolly opossum</a> (<i>Caluromys philander</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Subgenus <i>Mallodelphys</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Derby%27s_woolly_opossum" title="Derby's woolly opossum">Derby's woolly opossum</a> (<i>Caluromys derbianus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brown-eared_woolly_opossum" title="Brown-eared woolly opossum">Brown-eared woolly opossum</a> (<i>Caluromys lanatus</i>)</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Caluromysiops" class="mw-redirect" title="Caluromysiops">Caluromysiops</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black-shouldered_opossum" title="Black-shouldered opossum">Black-shouldered opossum</a> (<i>Caluromysiops irrupta</i>)</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Subfamily <a href="/wiki/Hyladelphinae" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyladelphinae">Hyladelphinae</a> <ul><li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Hyladelphys" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyladelphys">Hyladelphys</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kalinowski%27s_mouse_opossum" title="Kalinowski's mouse opossum">Kalinowski's mouse opossum</a> (<i>Hyladelphys kalinowskii</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Genus †<i><a href="/wiki/Sairadelphys" title="Sairadelphys">Sairadelphys</a></i> <small>Oliveira et al. 2011</small> <ul><li>†<i>Sairadelphys tocantinensis</i> <small>Oliveira et al. 2011</small></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Subfamily <a href="/wiki/Didelphinae" title="Didelphinae">Didelphinae</a> <ul><li>Tribe <a href="/wiki/Metachirini" class="mw-redirect" title="Metachirini">Metachirini</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vieraugen-Opossum_(Metachirus_nudicaudatus).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Vieraugen-Opossum_%28Metachirus_nudicaudatus%29.jpg/220px-Vieraugen-Opossum_%28Metachirus_nudicaudatus%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Vieraugen-Opossum_%28Metachirus_nudicaudatus%29.jpg/330px-Vieraugen-Opossum_%28Metachirus_nudicaudatus%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Vieraugen-Opossum_%28Metachirus_nudicaudatus%29.jpg/440px-Vieraugen-Opossum_%28Metachirus_nudicaudatus%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1332" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Brown_four-eyed_opossum" title="Brown four-eyed opossum">Brown four-eyed opossum</a>, <i>Metachirus nudicaudatus</i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Metachirus" class="mw-redirect" title="Metachirus">Metachirus</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aritana%27s_brown_four-eyed_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aritana's brown four-eyed opossum (page does not exist)">Aritana's brown four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Metachirus aritanai</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Common_brown_four-eyed_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Common brown four-eyed opossum (page does not exist)">Common brown four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Metachirus myosuros</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brown_four-eyed_opossum" title="Brown four-eyed opossum">Guianan brown four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Metachirus nudicaudatus</i>)</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Tribe Didelphini <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Schwimmbeutler-drawing2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Schwimmbeutler-drawing2.jpg/220px-Schwimmbeutler-drawing2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Schwimmbeutler-drawing2.jpg/330px-Schwimmbeutler-drawing2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Schwimmbeutler-drawing2.jpg/440px-Schwimmbeutler-drawing2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1520" data-file-height="940" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Water_opossum" title="Water opossum">Water opossum</a>, <i>Chironectes minimus</i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Chironectes" class="mw-redirect" title="Chironectes">Chironectes</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Water_opossum" title="Water opossum">Water opossum</a> or <a href="/wiki/Water_opossum" title="Water opossum">yapok</a> (<i>Chironectes minimus</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Lutreolina" title="Lutreolina">Lutreolina</a></i> <ul><li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lutreolina_biforata&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lutreolina biforata (page does not exist)">Lutreolina biforata</a></i> <small>(Ameghino 1904) Goin & Pardiñas 1996</small><sup id="cite_ref-hyperdidelphys_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hyperdidelphys-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_lutrine_opossum" title="Big lutrine opossum">Big lutrine opossum</a> or little water opossum (<i>Lutreolina crassicaudata</i>)<figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cambridge_Natural_History_Mammalia_Fig_084.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Cambridge_Natural_History_Mammalia_Fig_084.jpg/220px-Cambridge_Natural_History_Mammalia_Fig_084.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="102" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Cambridge_Natural_History_Mammalia_Fig_084.jpg/330px-Cambridge_Natural_History_Mammalia_Fig_084.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Cambridge_Natural_History_Mammalia_Fig_084.jpg/440px-Cambridge_Natural_History_Mammalia_Fig_084.jpg 2x" data-file-width="832" data-file-height="386" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Big_lutrine_opossum" title="Big lutrine opossum">Big lutrine opossum</a>, <i>Lutreolina crassicaudata</i></figcaption></figure></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lutreolina_materdei&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lutreolina materdei (page does not exist)">Lutreolina materdei</a></i> <small>Goin & De los Reyes 2011</small><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massoia%27s_lutrine_opossum" title="Massoia's lutrine opossum">Massoia's lutrine opossum</a> (<i>Lutreolina massoia</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lutreolina_tracheia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lutreolina tracheia (page does not exist)">Lutreolina tracheia</a></i> <small>Rovereto 1914</small></li></ul></li> <li>†Genus <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hyperdidelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hyperdidelphys (page does not exist)">Hyperdidelphys</a></i> <small>Ameghino 1904</small> <ul><li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hyperdidelphys_dimartinoi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hyperdidelphys dimartinoi (page does not exist)">Hyperdidelphys dimartinoi</a></i> <small>Goin & Pardiñas 1996</small><sup id="cite_ref-hyperdidelphys_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hyperdidelphys-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hyperdidelphys_inexpectata&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hyperdidelphys inexpectata (page does not exist)">Hyperdidelphys inexpectata</a></i> <small>(Ameghino 1889) Marshall 1982</small><sup id="cite_ref-hyperdidelphys_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hyperdidelphys-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hyperdidelphys_parvula&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hyperdidelphys parvula (page does not exist)">Hyperdidelphys parvula</a></i> <small>Ameghino 1904</small><sup id="cite_ref-hyperdidelphys_18-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hyperdidelphys-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hyperdidelphys_pattersoni&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hyperdidelphys pattersoni (page does not exist)">Hyperdidelphys pattersoni</a></i> <small>(Reig 1952) Marshall 1982</small><sup id="cite_ref-hyperdidelphys_18-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hyperdidelphys-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Didelphis" title="Didelphis">Didelphis</a></i> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Didelphis_albiventris,_Bahia,_Brazil.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Didelphis_albiventris%2C_Bahia%2C_Brazil.jpg/220px-Didelphis_albiventris%2C_Bahia%2C_Brazil.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Didelphis_albiventris%2C_Bahia%2C_Brazil.jpg/330px-Didelphis_albiventris%2C_Bahia%2C_Brazil.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Didelphis_albiventris%2C_Bahia%2C_Brazil.jpg/440px-Didelphis_albiventris%2C_Bahia%2C_Brazil.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1315" data-file-height="740" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/White-eared_opossum" title="White-eared opossum">White-eared opossum</a>, <i>Didelphis albiventris</i></figcaption></figure><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Didelphis_aurita_photo-Christian_Roger_Dockhorn.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Didelphis_aurita_photo-Christian_Roger_Dockhorn.JPG/220px-Didelphis_aurita_photo-Christian_Roger_Dockhorn.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Didelphis_aurita_photo-Christian_Roger_Dockhorn.JPG/330px-Didelphis_aurita_photo-Christian_Roger_Dockhorn.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Didelphis_aurita_photo-Christian_Roger_Dockhorn.JPG/440px-Didelphis_aurita_photo-Christian_Roger_Dockhorn.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Big-eared_opossum" title="Big-eared opossum">Big-eared opossum</a>, <i>Didelphis aurita</i></figcaption></figure><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rabipelao2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Rabipelao2.jpg/220px-Rabipelao2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Rabipelao2.jpg/330px-Rabipelao2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Rabipelao2.jpg/440px-Rabipelao2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="652" data-file-height="457" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Common_opossum" title="Common opossum">Common opossum</a>, <i>Didelphis marsupialis</i></figcaption></figure><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Didelphis_pernigra-crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Didelphis_pernigra-crop.jpg/220px-Didelphis_pernigra-crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Didelphis_pernigra-crop.jpg/330px-Didelphis_pernigra-crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Didelphis_pernigra-crop.jpg/440px-Didelphis_pernigra-crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2367" data-file-height="1436" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Andean_white-eared_opossum" title="Andean white-eared opossum">Andean white-eared opossum</a>, <i>Didelphis pernigra</i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/White-eared_opossum" title="White-eared opossum">White-eared opossum</a> (<i>Didelphis albiventris</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big-eared_opossum" title="Big-eared opossum">Big-eared opossum</a> (<i>Didelphis aurita</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guianan_white-eared_opossum" title="Guianan white-eared opossum">Guianan white-eared opossum</a> (<i>Didelphis imperfecta</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Common_opossum" title="Common opossum">Common opossum</a> (<i>Didelphis marsupialis</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andean_white-eared_opossum" title="Andean white-eared opossum">Andean white-eared opossum</a> (<i>Didelphis pernigra</i>)</li> <li>†<i>Didelphis solimoensis</i><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_opossum" title="Virginia opossum">Virginia opossum</a> (<i>Didelphis virginiana</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Gray_and_black_four-eyed_opossum" title="Gray and black four-eyed opossum">Philander</a></i> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cuica_verdadeira2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Cuica_verdadeira2.jpg/220px-Cuica_verdadeira2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Cuica_verdadeira2.jpg/330px-Cuica_verdadeira2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Cuica_verdadeira2.jpg/440px-Cuica_verdadeira2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="540" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Gray_four-eyed_opossum" title="Gray four-eyed opossum">Gray four-eyed opossum</a>, <i>Philander opossum</i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anderson%27s_four-eyed_opossum" title="Anderson's four-eyed opossum">Anderson's four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Philander andersoni</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Common_four-eyed_opossum" title="Common four-eyed opossum">Common four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Philander canus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deltaic_four-eyed_opossum" title="Deltaic four-eyed opossum">Deltaic four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Philander deltae</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeastern_four-eyed_opossum" title="Southeastern four-eyed opossum">Southeastern four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Philander frenatus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/McIlhenny%27s_four-eyed_opossum" title="McIlhenny's four-eyed opossum">McIlhenny's four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Philander mcilhennyi</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_four-eyed_opossum" title="Dark four-eyed opossum">Dark four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Philander melanurus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mondolfi%27s_four-eyed_opossum" title="Mondolfi's four-eyed opossum">Mondolfi's four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Philander mondolfii</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_four-eyed_opossum" title="Black four-eyed opossum">Black four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Philander nigratus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olrog%27s_four-eyed_opossum" title="Olrog's four-eyed opossum">Olrog's four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Philander olrogi</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gray_four-eyed_opossum" title="Gray four-eyed opossum">Gray four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Philander opossum</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pebas_four-eyed_opossum" title="Pebas four-eyed opossum">Pebas four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Philander pebas</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_four-eyed_opossum" title="Southern four-eyed opossum">Southern four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Philander quica</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_four-eyed_opossum" title="Northern four-eyed opossum">Northern four-eyed opossum</a> (<i>Philander vossi</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>†Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Thylophorops" title="Thylophorops">Thylophorops</a></i> <small>Reig 1952</small> <ul><li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thylophorops_chapadmalensis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thylophorops chapadmalensis (page does not exist)">Thylophorops chapadmalensis</a></i> <small>Reig 1952</small><sup id="cite_ref-hyperdidelphys_18-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hyperdidelphys-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thylophorops_lorenzinii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thylophorops lorenzinii (page does not exist)">Thylophorops lorenzinii</a></i> <small>Goin et al. 2009</small><sup id="cite_ref-Goin_2009_35–46_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goin_2009_35–46-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thylophorops_perplana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thylophorops perplana (page does not exist)">Thylophorops perplana</a></i> <small>(Ameghino 1904) Goin & Pardiñas 1996</small><sup id="cite_ref-hyperdidelphys_18-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hyperdidelphys-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Tribe Marmosini <ul><li>Genus †<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hesperocynus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hesperocynus (page does not exist)">Hesperocynus</a></i> <small>Forasiepi et al. 2009</small> <ul><li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hesperocynus_dolgopolae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hesperocynus dolgopolae (page does not exist)">Hesperocynus dolgopolae</a></i> <small>(Reig 1952) Forasiepi et al. 2009</small></li></ul></li> <li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Marmosa" title="Marmosa">Marmosa</a></i> <ul><li>†<i>Marmosa contrerasi</i> <small>Mones 1980</small></li> <li>Subgenus <i>Eomarmosa</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Red_mouse_opossum" title="Red mouse opossum">Red mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa rubra</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Subgenus <i>Exulomarmosa</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isthmian_mouse_opossum" title="Isthmian mouse opossum">Isthmian mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa isthmica</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexican_mouse_opossum" title="Mexican mouse opossum">Mexican mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa mexicana</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robinson%27s_mouse_opossum" title="Robinson's mouse opossum">Robinson's mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa robinsoni</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Simon%27s_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Simon's mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Simon's mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa simonsi</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guajira_mouse_opossum" title="Guajira mouse opossum">Guajira mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa xerophila</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zeledon%27s_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zeledon's mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Zeledon's mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa zeledoni</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Subgenus <i>Marmosa</i> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marmosa_robinsoni.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Marmosa_robinsoni.jpg/220px-Marmosa_robinsoni.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Marmosa_robinsoni.jpg/330px-Marmosa_robinsoni.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Marmosa_robinsoni.jpg/440px-Marmosa_robinsoni.jpg 2x" data-file-width="683" data-file-height="512" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Robinson%27s_mouse_opossum" title="Robinson's mouse opossum">Robinson's mouse opossum</a>, <i>Marmosa robinsoni</i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quechuan_mouse_opossum" title="Quechuan mouse opossum">Quechuan mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa macrotarsus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linnaeus%27s_mouse_opossum" title="Linnaeus's mouse opossum">Linnaeus's mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa murina</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyler%27s_mouse_opossum" title="Tyler's mouse opossum">Tyler's mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa tyleriana</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Waterhouse%27s_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Waterhouse's mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Waterhouse's mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa waterhousei</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Subgenus <i>Micoureus</i> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cu%C3%ADca_-_Marmosa_paraguayana_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Cu%C3%ADca_-_Marmosa_paraguayana_cropped.jpg/220px-Cu%C3%ADca_-_Marmosa_paraguayana_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="111" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Cu%C3%ADca_-_Marmosa_paraguayana_cropped.jpg/330px-Cu%C3%ADca_-_Marmosa_paraguayana_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Cu%C3%ADca_-_Marmosa_paraguayana_cropped.jpg/440px-Cu%C3%ADca_-_Marmosa_paraguayana_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2144" data-file-height="1080" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Tate%27s_woolly_mouse_opossum" title="Tate's woolly mouse opossum">Tate's woolly mouse opossum</a>, <i>Marmosa paraguayanus</i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adler%27s_mouse_opossum" title="Adler's mouse opossum">Adler's mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa adleri)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alston%27s_mouse_opossum" title="Alston's mouse opossum">Alston's woolly mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa alstoni</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/White-bellied_woolly_mouse_opossum" title="White-bellied woolly mouse opossum">White-bellied woolly mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa constantiae</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woolly_mouse_opossum" title="Woolly mouse opossum">Northeastern woolly mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa demerarae</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwestern_woolly_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Northwestern woolly mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Northwestern woolly mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa germana</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jansa%27s_woolly_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jansa's woolly mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Jansa's woolly mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa jansae</i>)</li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosa_laventica&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosa laventica (page does not exist)">Marmosa laventica</a></i> <small>Marshall 1976</small><sup id="cite_ref-goin_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-goin-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brazilian_woolly_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brazilian woolly mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Brazilian woolly mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa limae</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Merida_woolly_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Merida woolly mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Merida woolly mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa meridae</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicaraguan_woolly_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nicaraguan woolly mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Nicaraguan woolly mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa nicaraguae</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tate%27s_woolly_mouse_opossum" title="Tate's woolly mouse opossum">Tate's woolly mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa paraguayana</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peruvian_woolly_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peruvian woolly mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Peruvian woolly mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa parda</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony%27s_woolly_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anthony's woolly mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Anthony's woolly mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa perplexa</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_woolly_mouse_opossum" title="Little woolly mouse opossum">Little woolly mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa phaea</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolivian_woolly_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bolivian woolly mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Bolivian woolly mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa rapposa</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bare-tailed_woolly_mouse_opossum" title="Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum">Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa rutteri</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Subgenus <i>Stegomarmosa</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heavy-browed_mouse_opossum" title="Heavy-browed mouse opossum">Heavy-browed mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa andersoni</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rufous_mouse_opossum" title="Rufous mouse opossum">Rufous mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosa lepida</i>)</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Monodelphis" class="mw-redirect" title="Monodelphis">Monodelphis</a></i> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monodelphis_dimidiata.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Monodelphis_dimidiata.jpg/220px-Monodelphis_dimidiata.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Monodelphis_dimidiata.jpg/330px-Monodelphis_dimidiata.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Monodelphis_dimidiata.jpg/440px-Monodelphis_dimidiata.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1445" data-file-height="1047" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Yellow-sided_opossum" title="Yellow-sided opossum">Yellow-sided opossum</a>, <i>Monodelphis dimidiata</i></figcaption></figure><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monodelphis_domestica93-300b.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Monodelphis_domestica93-300b.jpg/220px-Monodelphis_domestica93-300b.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Monodelphis_domestica93-300b.jpg/330px-Monodelphis_domestica93-300b.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Monodelphis_domestica93-300b.jpg/440px-Monodelphis_domestica93-300b.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1300" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Gray_short-tailed_opossum" title="Gray short-tailed opossum">Gray short-tailed opossum</a>, <i>Monodelphis domestica</i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Subgenus <i>Microdelphys</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Northern_three-striped_opossum" title="Northern three-striped opossum">Northern three-striped opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis americana</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gardner%27s_short-tailed_opossum" title="Gardner's short-tailed opossum">Gardner's short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis gardneri</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ihering%27s_three-striped_opossum" title="Ihering's three-striped opossum">Ihering's three-striped opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis iheringi</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chestnut-striped_opossum" class="mw-redirect" title="Chestnut-striped opossum">Chestnut-striped opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis rubida</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long-nosed_short-tailed_opossum" title="Long-nosed short-tailed opossum">Long-nosed short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis scalops</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_three-striped_opossum" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern three-striped opossum">Southern three-striped opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis theresa</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_three-striped_opossum" class="mw-redirect" title="Red three-striped opossum">Red three-striped opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis umbristriata</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Subgenus <i>Monodelphiops</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yellow-sided_opossum" title="Yellow-sided opossum">Yellow-sided opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis dimidiata</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_red-sided_opossum" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern red-sided opossum">Southern red-sided opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis sorex</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/One-striped_opossum" title="One-striped opossum">One-striped opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis unistriata</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Subgenus <i>Monodelphis</i> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arlindo%27s_short-tailed_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arlindo's short-tailed opossum (page does not exist)">Arlindo's short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis arlindoi</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-wiley1_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wiley1-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_red-sided_opossum" title="Northern red-sided opossum">Northern red-sided opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis brevicaudata</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gray_short-tailed_opossum" title="Gray short-tailed opossum">Gray short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis domestica</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amazonian_red-sided_opossum" title="Amazonian red-sided opossum">Amazonian red-sided opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis glirina</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maraj%C3%B3_short-tailed_opossum" class="mw-redirect" title="Marajó short-tailed opossum">Marajó short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis maraxina</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hooded_red-sided_opossum" title="Hooded red-sided opossum">Hooded red-sided opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis palliolata</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Rosa_short-tailed_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Santa Rosa short-tailed opossum (page does not exist)">Santa Rosa short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis sanctaerosae</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Touan_short-tailed_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Touan short-tailed opossum (page does not exist)">Touan short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis touan</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-wiley1_87-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wiley1-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Voss%27s_short-tailed_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Voss's short-tailed opossum (page does not exist)">Voss's short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis vossi</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Subgenus <i>Mygalodelphys</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sepia_short-tailed_opossum" title="Sepia short-tailed opossum">Sepia short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis adusta</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-wiley1_87-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wiley1-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Handley%27s_short-tailed_opossum" title="Handley's short-tailed opossum">Handley's short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis handleyi</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pygmy_short-tailed_opossum" title="Pygmy short-tailed opossum">Pygmy short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis kunsi</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osgood%27s_short-tailed_opossum" title="Osgood's short-tailed opossum">Osgood's short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis osgoodi</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peruvian_short-tailed_opossum" title="Peruvian short-tailed opossum">Peruvian short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis peruviana</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monodelphis_pinocchio" title="Monodelphis pinocchio">Long-nosed short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis pinocchio</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reig%27s_opossum" title="Reig's opossum">Reig's opossum</a> <i>(Monodelphis reigi)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald%27s_opossum" title="Ronald's opossum">Ronald's opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis ronaldi</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saci_short-tailed_opossum" title="Saci short-tailed opossum">Saci short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis saci</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_88-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li>Subgenus <i>Pyrodelphys</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emilia%27s_short-tailed_opossum" title="Emilia's short-tailed opossum">Emilia's short-tailed opossum</a> (<i>Monodelphis emiliae</i>)</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Genus †<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sparassocynus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sparassocynus (page does not exist)">Sparassocynus</a></i> <small>Mercerat 1898</small><sup id="cite_ref-BeckTaglioretti_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BeckTaglioretti-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sparassocynus_bahiai&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sparassocynus bahiai (page does not exist)">Sparassocynus bahiai</a></i> <small>Mercerat 1898</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sparassocynus_derivatus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sparassocynus derivatus (page does not exist)">Sparassocynus derivatus</a></i> <small>Reig & Simpson 1972</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sparassocynus_maimarai&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sparassocynus maimarai (page does not exist)">Sparassocynus maimarai</a></i> <small>Abello et al. 2015</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sparassocynus_heterotopicus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sparassocynus heterotopicus (page does not exist)">Sparassocynus heterotopicus</a></i> <small>Villarroel & Marshall 1983</small></li></ul></li> <li>Genus †<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thylatheridium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thylatheridium (page does not exist)">Thylatheridium</a></i> <small>Reig 1952</small> <ul><li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thylatheridium_cristatum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thylatheridium cristatum (page does not exist)">Thylatheridium cristatum</a></i> <small>Reig 1952</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thylatheridium_hudsoni&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thylatheridium hudsoni (page does not exist)">Thylatheridium hudsoni</a></i> <small>Goin & Montalvo 1988</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thylatheridium_pascuali&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thylatheridium pascuali (page does not exist)">Thylatheridium pascuali</a></i> <small>Reig 1958</small></li></ul></li> <li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Tlacuatzin" class="mw-redirect" title="Tlacuatzin">Tlacuatzin</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-VossJansa2009_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VossJansa2009-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Balsas_gray_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Balsas gray mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Balsas gray mouse opossum</a> (<i>Tlacuatzin balsasensis</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grayish_mouse_opossum" title="Grayish mouse opossum">Tehuantepec gray mouse opossum</a> (<i>Tlacuatzin canescens</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yucatan_gray_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yucatan gray mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Yucatan gray mouse opossum</a> (<i>Tlacuatzin gaumeri</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tres_Mar%C3%ADas_gray_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tres Marías gray mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Tres Marías gray mouse opossum</a> (<i>Tlacuatzin insularis</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_gray_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Northern gray mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Northern gray mouse opossum</a> (<i>Tlacuatzin sinaloae</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>†Genus <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zygolestes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zygolestes (page does not exist)">Zygolestes</a></i> <small>Ameghino 1898</small> <ul><li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zygolestes_paramensis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zygolestes paramensis (page does not exist)">Zygolestes paramensis</a></i> <small>Ameghino 1898</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zygolestes_tatei&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zygolestes tatei (page does not exist)">Zygolestes tatei</a></i> <small>Goin, Montalvo & Visconti 2000</small></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Tribe Thylamyini <ul><li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Chacodelphys" class="mw-redirect" title="Chacodelphys">Chacodelphys</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chacoan_pygmy_opossum" title="Chacoan pygmy opossum">Chacoan pygmy opossum</a> (<i>Chacodelphys formosa</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Cryptonanus" title="Cryptonanus">Cryptonanus</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agricola%27s_gracile_opossum" title="Agricola's gracile opossum">Agricola's gracile opossum</a> (<i>Cryptonanus agricolai</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chacoan_gracile_opossum" title="Chacoan gracile opossum">Chacoan gracile opossum</a> (<i>Cryptonanus chacoensis</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guahiba_gracile_opossum" title="Guahiba gracile opossum">Guahiba gracile opossum</a> (<i>Cryptonanus guahybae</i>)</li> <li>†<a href="/wiki/Red-bellied_gracile_opossum" title="Red-bellied gracile opossum">Red-bellied gracile opossum</a> (<i>Cryptonanus ignitus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unduavi_gracile_opossum" title="Unduavi gracile opossum">Unduavi gracile opossum</a> (<i>Cryptonanus unduaviensis</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Gracilinanus" title="Gracilinanus">Gracilinanus</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aceramarca_gracile_opossum" title="Aceramarca gracile opossum">Aceramarca gracile opossum</a> (<i>Gracilinanus aceramarcae</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agile_gracile_opossum" title="Agile gracile opossum">Agile gracile opossum</a> (<i>Gracilinanus agilis</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wood_sprite_gracile_opossum" title="Wood sprite gracile opossum">Wood sprite gracile opossum</a> (<i>Gracilinanus dryas</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emilia%27s_gracile_opossum" title="Emilia's gracile opossum">Emilia's gracile opossum</a> (<i>Gracilinanus emilae</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_gracile_opossum" title="Northern gracile opossum">Northern gracile opossum</a> (<i>Gracilinanus marica</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brazilian_gracile_opossum" title="Brazilian gracile opossum">Brazilian gracile opossum</a> (<i>Gracilinanus microtarsus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peruvian_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peruvian opossum (page does not exist)">Peruvian opossum</a> (<i>Gracilinanus peruanus</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Lestodelphys" class="mw-redirect" title="Lestodelphys">Lestodelphys</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Patagonian_opossum" title="Patagonian opossum">Patagonian opossum</a> (<i>Lestodelphys halli</i>)</li> <li>†<i>Lestodelphys juga</i> <small>(Ameghino 1889)</small></li></ul></li> <li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Marmosops" title="Marmosops">Marmosops</a></i> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marmosops_incanus.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Marmosops_incanus.jpg/220px-Marmosops_incanus.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Marmosops_incanus.jpg/330px-Marmosops_incanus.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Marmosops_incanus.jpg/440px-Marmosops_incanus.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="681" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Gray_slender_opossum" title="Gray slender opossum">Gray slender opossum</a>, <i>Marmosops incanus</i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Subgenus <i>Marmosops</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andean_slender_mouse_opossum" class="mw-redirect" title="Andean slender mouse opossum">Andean slender mouse opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops caucae</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creighton%27s_slender_opossum" title="Creighton's slender opossum">Creighton's slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops creightoni</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy%27s_slender_opossum" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorothy's slender opossum">Dorothy's slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops dorothea</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tschudi%27s_slender_opossum" title="Tschudi's slender opossum">Tschudi's slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops impavidus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gray_slender_opossum" title="Gray slender opossum">Gray slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops incanus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neblina_slender_opossum" title="Neblina slender opossum">Neblina slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops neblina</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/White-bellied_slender_opossum" title="White-bellied slender opossum">White-bellied slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops noctivagus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spectacled_slender_opossum" title="Spectacled slender opossum">Spectacled slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops ocellatus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brazilian_slender_opossum" title="Brazilian slender opossum">Brazilian slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops paulensis</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Soini%27s_slender_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Soini's slender opossum (page does not exist)">Soini's slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops soinii</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Subgenus <i>Sciophanes</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bishop%27s_slender_opossum" title="Bishop's slender opossum">Bishop's slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops bishopi</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carr%27s_slender_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carr's slender opossum (page does not exist)">Carr's slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops carri</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cordillera_slender_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cordillera slender opossum (page does not exist)">Cordillera slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops chucha</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrow-headed_slender_opossum" title="Narrow-headed slender opossum">Narrow-headed slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops cracens</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dusky_slender_opossum" title="Dusky slender opossum">Dusky slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops fuscatus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Handley%27s_slender_opossum" title="Handley's slender opossum">Handley's slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops handleyi</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panama_slender_opossum" title="Panama slender opossum">Panama slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops invictus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Junin_slender_opossum" title="Junin slender opossum">Junin slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops juninensis</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=R%C3%ADo_Magdalena_slender_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Río Magdalena slender opossum (page does not exist)">Río Magdalena slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops magdalenae</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Silva%27s_slender_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Silva's slender opossum (page does not exist)">Silva's slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops marina</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ojasti%27s_slender_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ojasti's slender opossum (page does not exist)">Ojasti's slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops ojastii</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pantepui_slender_opossum" class="mw-redirect" title="Pantepui slender opossum">Pantepui slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops pakaraimae</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delicate_slender_opossum" title="Delicate slender opossum">Delicate slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops parvidens</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinheiro%27s_slender_opossum" title="Pinheiro's slender opossum">Pinheiro's slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops pinheiroi</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Woodall%27s_slender_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Woodall's slender opossum (page does not exist)">Woodall's slender opossum</a> (<i>Marmosops woodalli</i>)</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Genus <i><a href="/wiki/Thylamys" title="Thylamys">Thylamys</a></i> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Llaca.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Llaca.jpg/220px-Llaca.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Llaca.jpg/330px-Llaca.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Llaca.jpg/440px-Llaca.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="540" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Elegant_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum">Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum</a>, <i>Thylamys elegans</i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Subgenus <i>Thylamys</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cinderella_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Cinderella fat-tailed mouse opossum">Cinderella fat-tailed mouse opossum</a> (<i>Thylamys cinderella</i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mesopotamian_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mesopotamian fat-tailed mouse opossum (page does not exist)">Mesopotamian fat-tailed mouse opossum</a> (<i>Thylamys citellus</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elegant_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum">Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum</a> (<i>Thylamys elegans</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paraguayan_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum">Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum</a> (<i>Thylamys macrurus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/White-bellied_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum">White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum</a> (<i>Thylamys pallidior</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dry_Chaco_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" class="mw-redirect" title="Dry Chaco fat-tailed mouse opossum">Dry Chaco fat-tailed mouse opossum</a> (<i>Thylamys pulchellus</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Common_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Common fat-tailed mouse opossum">Chacoan fat-tailed mouse opossum</a> (<i>Thylamys pusillus</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argentine_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Argentine fat-tailed mouse opossum">Argentine fat-tailed mouse opossum</a> (<i>Thylamys sponsorius</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tate%27s_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum">Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum</a> (<i>Thylamys tatei</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buff-bellied_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Buff-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum">Buff-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum</a> (<i>Thylamys venustus</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>Subgenus <i>Xerodelpys</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karimi%27s_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum">Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum</a> (<i>Thylamys karimii</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwarf_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum">Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum</a> (<i>Thylamys velutinus</i>)</li></ul></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thylamys_colombianus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thylamys colombianus (page does not exist)">Thylamys colombianus</a></i> <small>Goin 1997</small><sup id="cite_ref-goin_86-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-goin-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thylamys_minutus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thylamys minutus (page does not exist)">Thylamys minutus</a></i> <small>Goin 1997</small><sup id="cite_ref-goin_86-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-goin-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thylamys_pinei&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thylamys pinei (page does not exist)">Thylamys pinei</a></i> <small>Goin, Montalvo & Visconti 2000</small><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thylamys_zettii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thylamys zettii (page does not exist)">Thylamys zettii</a></i> <small>Goin 1997</small><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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title="Kasserinotherium (page does not exist)">Kasserinotherium</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/wiki/Protalphadon" title="Protalphadon">Protalphadon</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/wiki/Sinodelphys" title="Sinodelphys">Sinodelphys</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Deltatheroida" title="Deltatheroida">Deltatheroida</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table 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href="/wiki/Nanocuris" title="Nanocuris">Nanocuris</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oklatheridium" title="Oklatheridium">Oklatheridium</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prodeltitheridium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Prodeltitheridium (page does not exist)">Prodeltitheridium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sulestes" title="Sulestes">Sulestes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tsagandelta" title="Tsagandelta">Tsagandelta</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;transform: translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);;"><a href="/wiki/Marsupialiformes" class="mw-redirect" title="Marsupialiformes">Marsupialiformes</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adelodelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Adelodelphys (page does not exist)">Adelodelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aenigmadelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aenigmadelphys (page does not exist)">Aenigmadelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anchistodelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anchistodelphys (page does not exist)">Anchistodelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/wiki/Andinodelphys" title="Andinodelphys">Andinodelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/wiki/Arcantiodelphys" title="Arcantiodelphys">Arcantiodelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Camptomus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Camptomus (page does not exist)">Camptomus</a></i>?</li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Glasbius&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glasbius (page does not exist)">Glasbius</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Gurlin_Tsav_skull" title="Gurlin Tsav skull">Gurlin Tsav skull</a></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iugomortiferum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iugomortiferum (page does not exist)">Iugomortiferum</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jaskhadelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jaskhadelphys (page does not exist)">Jaskhadelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/wiki/Mayulestes" title="Mayulestes">Mayulestes</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/wiki/Pucadelphys" title="Pucadelphys">Pucadelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sinbadelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sinbadelphys (page does not exist)">Sinbadelphys</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Sparassodonta" title="Sparassodonta">Sparassodonta</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><ul><li>see below↓</li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Asiatheriidae" class="mw-redirect" title="Asiatheriidae">Asiatheriidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Asiatherium" title="Asiatherium">Asiatherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kokopellia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kokopellia (page does not exist)">Kokopellia</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/w/index.php?title=Archimetatheria&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Archimetatheria (page does not exist)">Archimetatheria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iqualadelphis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iqualadelphis (page does not exist)">Iqualadelphis</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Stagodontidae" title="Stagodontidae">Stagodontidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Didelphodon" title="Didelphodon">Didelphodon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eobrasilia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eobrasilia (page does not exist)">Eobrasilia</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Eodelphis" title="Eodelphis">Eodelphis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fumodelphodon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fumodelphodon (page does not exist)">Fumodelphodon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hoodootherium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hoodootherium (page does not exist)">Hoodootherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pariadens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pariadens (page does not exist)">Pariadens</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pediomyoidea&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pediomyoidea (page does not exist)">Pediomyoidea</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aquiladelphis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aquiladelphis (page does not exist)">Aquiladelphis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Austropediomys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Austropediomys (page does not exist)">Austropediomys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dakotadens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dakotadens (page does not exist)">Dakotadens</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monodelphopsis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Monodelphopsis (page does not exist)">Monodelphopsis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pediomys" title="Pediomys">Pediomys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Protolambda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Protolambda (page does not exist)">Protolambda</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Scalaridelphys" title="Scalaridelphys">Scalaridelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Unnuakomys" title="Unnuakomys">Unnuakomys</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Peradectidae" title="Peradectidae">Peradectidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armintodelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Armintodelphys (page does not exist)">Armintodelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Didelphidectes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Didelphidectes (page does not exist)">Didelphidectes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mimoperadectes" title="Mimoperadectes">Mimoperadectes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanodelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nanodelphys (page does not exist)">Nanodelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Peradectes" title="Peradectes">Peradectes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Siamoperadectes" title="Siamoperadectes">Siamoperadectes</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Alphadontidae" title="Alphadontidae">Alphadontidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Albertatherium" title="Albertatherium">Albertatherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alphadon" title="Alphadon">Alphadon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eoalphadon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eoalphadon (page does not exist)">Eoalphadon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Turgidodon" title="Turgidodon">Turgidodon</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Herpetotheriidae" title="Herpetotheriidae">Herpetotheriidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Amphiperatherium" title="Amphiperatherium">Amphiperatherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asiadidelphis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Asiadidelphis (page does not exist)">Asiadidelphis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Copedelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Copedelphys (page does not exist)">Copedelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ectocentrocristus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ectocentrocristus (page does not exist)">Ectocentrocristus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Entomacodon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Entomacodon (page does not exist)">Entomacodon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Galatiadelphys" title="Galatiadelphys">Galatiadelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Golerdelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Golerdelphys (page does not exist)">Golerdelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Herpetotherium" title="Herpetotherium">Herpetotherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Indodelphis" title="Indodelphis">Indodelphis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Maastrichtidelphys" title="Maastrichtidelphys">Maastrichtidelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morotodon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Morotodon (page does not exist)">Morotodon</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nortedelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nortedelphys (page does not exist)">Nortedelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Peratherium" title="Peratherium">Peratherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumiodon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rumiodon (page does not exist)">Rumiodon</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swaindelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Swaindelphys (page does not exist)">Swaindelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thylacodon" class="mw-redirect" title="Thylacodon">Thylacodon</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Anatoliadelphyidae" title="Anatoliadelphyidae">Anatoliadelphyidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Anatoliadelphys" title="Anatoliadelphys">Anatoliadelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Orhaniyeia" title="Orhaniyeia">Orhaniyeia</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Polydolopimorphia" title="Polydolopimorphia">Polydolopimorphia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><ul><li>see below↓</li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Marsupial" title="Marsupial">Marsupialia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Ameridelphia" title="Ameridelphia">Ameridelphia</a></b> <ul><li><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Didelphimorphia</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Paucituberculata" title="Paucituberculata">Paucituberculata</a></b></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Australidelphia" title="Australidelphia">Australidelphia</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Didelphodon_NT_small.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Didelphodon vorax"><img alt="Didelphodon vorax" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Didelphodon_NT_small.jpg/140px-Didelphodon_NT_small.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Didelphodon_NT_small.jpg/210px-Didelphodon_NT_small.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Didelphodon_NT_small.jpg/280px-Didelphodon_NT_small.jpg 2x" data-file-width="902" data-file-height="430" /></a></span> <p><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alphadon_sp._-_MUSE.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Alphadon sp."><img alt="Alphadon sp." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Alphadon_sp._-_MUSE.jpg/140px-Alphadon_sp._-_MUSE.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Alphadon_sp._-_MUSE.jpg/210px-Alphadon_sp._-_MUSE.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Alphadon_sp._-_MUSE.jpg/280px-Alphadon_sp._-_MUSE.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="1800" /></a></span> </p> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Herpetotherium_NT.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Herpetotherium fugax"><img alt="Herpetotherium fugax" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Herpetotherium_NT.jpg/140px-Herpetotherium_NT.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="69" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Herpetotherium_NT.jpg/210px-Herpetotherium_NT.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Herpetotherium_NT.jpg/280px-Herpetotherium_NT.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="245" /></a></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><div id="Sparassodonta263" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Sparassodonta" title="Sparassodonta">Sparassodonta</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Sparassodonta103" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;transform: translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);;"><a href="/wiki/Sparassodonta" title="Sparassodonta">Sparassodonta</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Allqokirus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Allqokirus (page does not exist)">Allqokirus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Argyrolestes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Argyrolestes (page does not exist)">Argyrolestes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hondadelphys" title="Hondadelphys">Hondadelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nemolestes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nemolestes (page does not exist)">Nemolestes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patene&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patene (page does not exist)">Patene</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Procladosictis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Procladosictis (page does not exist)">Procladosictis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stylocynus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stylocynus (page does not exist)">Stylocynus</a></i></li></ul> 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<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Arminiheringia" title="Arminiheringia">Arminiheringia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Callistoe" title="Callistoe">Callistoe</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paraborhyaena" title="Paraborhyaena">Paraborhyaena</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Proborhyaena" title="Proborhyaena">Proborhyaena</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Thylacosmiliformes" title="Thylacosmiliformes">Thylacosmiliformes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dimartinia" title="Dimartinia">Dimartinia</a></i></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Thylacosmilidae19" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Thylacosmilidae" title="Thylacosmilidae">Thylacosmilidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Anachlysictis" title="Anachlysictis">Anachlysictis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Patagosmilus" title="Patagosmilus">Patagosmilus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thylacosmilus" title="Thylacosmilus">Thylacosmilus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Thylacosmilus_NT_small.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Thylacosmilus atrox"><img alt="Thylacosmilus atrox" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Thylacosmilus_NT_small.jpg/140px-Thylacosmilus_NT_small.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="78" class="mw-file-element" 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id="Polydolopimorphia107" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;transform: translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);;"><a href="/wiki/Polydolopimorphia" title="Polydolopimorphia">Polydolopimorphia</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Apeirodon" title="Apeirodon">Apeirodon</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bobbschaefferia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bobbschaefferia (page does not exist)">Bobbschaefferia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Caroloameghinia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caroloameghinia (page does not exist)">Caroloameghinia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolocoutoia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carolocoutoia (page does not exist)">Carolocoutoia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guggenheimia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guggenheimia (page does not exist)">Guggenheimia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gashternia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gashternia (page does not exist)">Gashternia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hatcheritherium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hatcheritherium (page does not exist)">Hatcheritherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Palangania&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Palangania (page does not exist)">Palangania</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Procaroloameghinia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Procaroloameghinia (page does not exist)">Procaroloameghinia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Protodidelphis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Protodidelphis (page does not exist)">Protodidelphis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pujatodon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pujatodon (page does not exist)">Pujatodon</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reigia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reigia (page does not exist)">Reigia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertbutleria&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robertbutleria (page does not exist)">Robertbutleria</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wamradolops&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wamradolops (page does not exist)">Wamradolops</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zeusdelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zeusdelphys (page does not exist)">Zeusdelphys</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bonapartheriiformes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bonapartheriiformes (page does not exist)">Bonapartheriiformes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bonapartheriidae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bonapartheriidae (page does not exist)">Bonapartheriidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Bonapartherium" title="Bonapartherium">Bonapartherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epidolops" title="Epidolops">Epidolops</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Argyrolagidae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Argyrolagidae (page does not exist)">Argyrolagidae</a></th><td 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</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Subfamily_Caluromyinae512" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Subfamily <a href="/wiki/Caluromyinae" title="Caluromyinae">Caluromyinae</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Woolly_opossum" title="Woolly opossum">Caluromys</a></i><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#696969"><span class="nobold">(Woolly opossums)</span></span></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt><span class="nobold"><u>Subgenus <i>Caluromys</i></u></span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bare-tailed_woolly_opossum" title="Bare-tailed woolly opossum">Bare-tailed woolly opossum (<i>C. philander</i>)</a></dd></dl> <dl><dt><span class="nobold"><u>Subgenus <i>Mallodelphys</i></u></span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Derby%27s_woolly_opossum" title="Derby's woolly opossum">Derby's woolly opossum (<i>C. derbianus</i>)</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Brown-eared_woolly_opossum" title="Brown-eared woolly opossum">Brown-eared woolly opossum (<i>C. lanatus</i>)</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Black-shouldered_opossum" title="Black-shouldered opossum">Caluromysiops</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black-shouldered_opossum" title="Black-shouldered opossum">Black-shouldered opossum (<i>C. irrupta</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Subfamily_Didelphinae_(cont._below)512" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Subfamily <a href="/wiki/Didelphinae" title="Didelphinae">Didelphinae</a> <span class="nobold">(cont. below)</span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Chacoan_pygmy_opossum" title="Chacoan pygmy opossum">Chacodelphys</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chacoan_pygmy_opossum" title="Chacoan pygmy opossum">Chacoan pygmy opossum (<i>C. formosa</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Water_opossum" title="Water opossum">Chironectes</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Water_opossum" title="Water opossum">Water opossum (<i>C. minimus</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Cryptonanus" title="Cryptonanus">Cryptonanus</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agricola%27s_gracile_opossum" title="Agricola's gracile opossum">Agricola's gracile opossum (<i>C. agricolai</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chacoan_gracile_opossum" title="Chacoan gracile opossum">Chacoan gracile opossum (<i>C. chacoensis</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guahiba_gracile_opossum" title="Guahiba gracile opossum">Guahiba gracile opossum (<i>C. guahybae</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unduavi_gracile_opossum" title="Unduavi gracile opossum">Unduavi gracile opossum (<i>C. unduaviensis</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Didelphis" title="Didelphis">Didelphis</a></i><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#696969"><span class="nobold">(Large American<br />opossums)</span></span></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/White-eared_opossum" title="White-eared opossum">White-eared opossum (<i>D. albiventris</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big-eared_opossum" title="Big-eared opossum">Big-eared opossum (<i>D. aurita</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guianan_white-eared_opossum" title="Guianan white-eared opossum">Guianan white-eared opossum (<i>D. imperfecta</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Common_opossum" title="Common opossum">Common opossum (<i>D. marsupialis</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andean_white-eared_opossum" title="Andean white-eared opossum">Andean white-eared opossum (<i>D. pernigra</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_opossum" title="Virginia opossum">Virginia opossum (<i>D. virginiana</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Gracilinanus" title="Gracilinanus">Gracilinanus</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aceramarca_gracile_opossum" title="Aceramarca gracile opossum">Aceramarca gracile opossum (<i>G. aceramarcae</i>)</a></li> <li><a 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opossum">Lestodelphys</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Patagonian_opossum" title="Patagonian opossum">Patagonian opossum (<i>L. halli</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Lutreolina" title="Lutreolina">Lutreolina</a></i><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#696969"><span class="nobold">(Little water opossums)</span></span></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Big_lutrine_opossum" title="Big lutrine opossum">Big lutrine opossum (<i>L. crassicaudata</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massoia%27s_lutrine_opossum" title="Massoia's lutrine opossum">Massoia's lutrine opossum (<i>L. massoia)</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Marmosa" title="Marmosa">Marmosa</a></i><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#696969"><span class="nobold">(Mouse opossums)</span></span></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marmosa_adleri" class="mw-redirect" title="Marmosa adleri">Adler's mouse opossum (<i>M. adleri</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alston%27s_mouse_opossum" title="Alston's mouse opossum">Alston's mouse opossum (<i>M. alstoni</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heavy-browed_mouse_opossum" title="Heavy-browed mouse opossum">Heavy-browed mouse opossum (<i>M. andersoni</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White-bellied_woolly_mouse_opossum" title="White-bellied woolly mouse opossum">White-bellied woolly mouse opossum (<i>M. constantiae</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woolly_mouse_opossum" title="Woolly mouse opossum">Woolly mouse opossum (<i>M. demerarae</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosa_germana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosa germana (page does not exist)">Northwestern mouse opossum (<i>M. germana</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isthmian_mouse_opossum" title="Isthmian mouse opossum">Isthmian mouse opossum (<i>M. isthmica</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosa_jansae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosa jansae (page does not exist)">Jansa's woolly mouse opossum (<i>M. jansae</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rufous_mouse_opossum" title="Rufous mouse opossum">Rufous mouse opossum (<i>M. lepida</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quechuan_mouse_opossum" title="Quechuan mouse opossum">Quechuan mouse opossum (<i>M. macrotarsus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexican_mouse_opossum" title="Mexican mouse opossum">Mexican mouse opossum (<i>M. mexicana</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linnaeus%27s_mouse_opossum" title="Linnaeus's mouse opossum">Linnaeus's mouse opossum (<i>M. murina</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosa_nicaraguae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosa nicaraguae (page does not exist)">Nicaraguan woolly mouse opossum (<i>M. nicaraguae</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tate%27s_woolly_mouse_opossum" title="Tate's woolly mouse opossum">Tate's woolly mouse opossum (<i>M. paraguayanus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosa_parda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosa parda (page does not exist)">Peruvian woolly mouse opossum (<i>M. parda</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosa_perplexa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosa perplexa (page does not exist)">Anthony's woolly mouse opossum (<i>M. perplexa</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_woolly_mouse_opossum" title="Little woolly mouse opossum">Little woolly mouse opossum (<i>M. phaeus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosa_rapposa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosa rapposa (page does not exist)">Bolivian woolly mouse opossum (<i>M. rapposa</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bare-tailed_woolly_mouse_opossum" title="Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum">Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum (<i>M. regina</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robinson%27s_mouse_opossum" title="Robinson's mouse opossum">Robinson's mouse opossum (<i>M. robinsoni</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_mouse_opossum" title="Red mouse opossum">Red mouse opossum (<i>M. rubra</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosa_rutteri&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosa rutteri (page does not exist)">Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum (<i>M. rutteri</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosa_simonsi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosa simonsi (page does not exist)">Simons's woolly mouse opossum (<i>M. simonsi</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyler%27s_mouse_opossum" title="Tyler's mouse opossum">Tyler's mouse opossum (<i>M. tyleriana</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marmosa_waterhousei" title="Marmosa waterhousei">Waterhouse's mouse opossum (<i>M. waterhousei</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guajira_mouse_opossum" title="Guajira mouse opossum">Guajira mouse opossum (<i>M. xerophila</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosa_zeledoni&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosa zeledoni (page does not exist)">Zeledon's mouse opossum (<i>M. zeledoni</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Marmosops" title="Marmosops">Marmosops</a></i><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#696969"><span class="nobold">(Slender opossums)</span></span></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bishop%27s_slender_opossum" title="Bishop's slender opossum">Bishop's slender opossum (<i>M. bishopi</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marmosops_carri" class="mw-redirect" title="Marmosops carri">Carr's slender opossum (<i>M. carri</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marmosops_caucae" title="Marmosops caucae">Cauca slender opossum (<i>M. caucae</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosops_chucha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosops chucha (page does not exist)">Cordillera slender opossum (<i>M. chucha</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrow-headed_slender_opossum" title="Narrow-headed slender opossum">Narrow-headed slender opossum (<i>M. cracens</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creighton%27s_slender_opossum" title="Creighton's slender opossum">Creighton's slender opossum (<i>M. creightoni</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy%27s_slender_opossum" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorothy's slender opossum">Dorothy's slender opossum (<i>M. dorothea</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dusky_slender_opossum" title="Dusky slender opossum">Dusky slender opossum (<i>M. fuscatus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Handley%27s_slender_opossum" title="Handley's slender opossum">Handley's slender opossum (<i>M. handleyi</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tschudi%27s_slender_opossum" title="Tschudi's slender opossum">Tschudi's slender opossum (<i>M. impavidus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gray_slender_opossum" title="Gray slender opossum">Gray slender opossum (<i>M. incanus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panama_slender_opossum" title="Panama slender opossum">Panama slender opossum (<i>M. invictus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Junin_slender_opossum" title="Junin slender opossum">Junin slender opossum (<i>M. juninensis</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosops_magdalenae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosops magdalenae (page does not exist)">Rio Magdalena slender opossum (<i>M. magdalenae</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosops_marina&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosops marina (page does not exist)">Silva's slender opossum (<i>M. marina</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neblina_slender_opossum" title="Neblina slender opossum">Neblina slender opossum (<i>M. neblina</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White-bellied_slender_opossum" title="White-bellied slender opossum">White-bellied slender opossum (<i>M. noctivagus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marmosops_ocellatus" class="mw-redirect" title="Marmosops ocellatus">Spectacled slender opossum (<i>M. ocellatus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosops_ojastii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosops ojastii (page does not exist)">Ojasti's slender opossum (<i>M. ojastii</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marmosops_pakaraimae" title="Marmosops pakaraimae">Pantepui slender opossum (<i>M. pakaraimae</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delicate_slender_opossum" title="Delicate slender opossum">Delicate slender opossum (<i>M. parvidens</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brazilian_slender_opossum" title="Brazilian slender opossum">Brazilian slender opossum (<i>M. paulensis</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinheiro%27s_slender_opossum" title="Pinheiro's slender opossum">Pinheiro's slender opossum (<i>M. pinheiroi</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosops_soinii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosops soinii (page does not exist)">Soini's slender opossum (<i>M. soinii</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosops_woodalli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosops woodalli (page does not exist)">Woodall's slender opossum (<i>M. woodalli</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Subfamily_Didelphinae_(cont._above)512" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Subfamily <a href="/wiki/Didelphinae" title="Didelphinae">Didelphinae</a> <span class="nobold">(cont. above)</span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Brown_four-eyed_opossum" title="Brown four-eyed opossum">Metachirus</a></i><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#696969"><span class="nobold">(Brown four-<br />eyed opossums)</span></span></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metachirus_aritanai&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Metachirus aritanai (page does not exist)">Aritana's brown four-eyed opossum (<i>M. aritanai</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metachirus_myosuros" class="mw-redirect" title="Metachirus myosuros">Common brown four-eyed opossum (<i>M. myosuros</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metachirus_nudicaudatus" class="mw-redirect" title="Metachirus nudicaudatus">Guianan brown four-eyed opossum (<i>M. nudicaudatus</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Short-tailed_opossum" title="Short-tailed opossum">Monodelphis</a></i><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#696969"><span class="nobold">(Short-tailed<br />opossums)</span></span></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sepia_short-tailed_opossum" title="Sepia short-tailed opossum">Sepia short-tailed opossum (<i>M. adusta</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_three-striped_opossum" title="Northern three-striped opossum">Northern three-striped opossum (<i>M. americana</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arlindo%27s_short-tailed_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arlindo's short-tailed opossum (page does not exist)">Arlindo's short-tailed opossum (<i>M. arlindoi</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_red-sided_opossum" title="Northern red-sided opossum">Northern red-sided opossum (<i>M. brevicaudata</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yellow-sided_opossum" title="Yellow-sided opossum">Yellow-sided opossum (<i>M. dimidiata</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gray_short-tailed_opossum" title="Gray short-tailed opossum">Gray short-tailed opossum (<i>M. domestica</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emilia%27s_short-tailed_opossum" title="Emilia's short-tailed opossum">Emilia's short-tailed opossum (<i>M. emiliae</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gardner%27s_short-tailed_opossum" title="Gardner's short-tailed opossum">Gardner's short-tailed opossum (<i>M. gardneri</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amazonian_red-sided_opossum" title="Amazonian red-sided opossum">Amazonian red-sided opossum (<i>M. glirina</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Handley%27s_short-tailed_opossum" title="Handley's short-tailed opossum">Handley's short-tailed opossum (<i>M. handleyi</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ihering%27s_three-striped_opossum" title="Ihering's three-striped opossum">Ihering's three-striped opossum (<i>M. iheringi</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pygmy_short-tailed_opossum" title="Pygmy short-tailed opossum">Pygmy short-tailed opossum (<i>M. kunsi</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osgood%27s_short-tailed_opossum" title="Osgood's short-tailed opossum">Osgood's short-tailed opossum (<i>M. osgoodi</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hooded_red-sided_opossum" title="Hooded red-sided opossum">Hooded red-sided opossum (<i>M. palliolata</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peruvian_short-tailed_opossum" title="Peruvian short-tailed opossum">Peruvian short-tailed opossum (<i>M. peruviana</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long-nosed_short-tailed_opossum" title="Long-nosed short-tailed opossum">Long-nosed short-tailed opossum (<i>M. pinocchio</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reig%27s_opossum" title="Reig's opossum">Reig's opossum (<i>M. reigi</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald%27s_opossum" title="Ronald's opossum">Ronald's opossum (<i>M. ronaldi</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saci_short-tailed_opossum" title="Saci short-tailed opossum">Saci short-tailed opossum (<i>M. saci</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Rosa_short-tailed_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Santa Rosa short-tailed opossum (page does not exist)">Santa Rosa short-tailed opossum (<i>M. sanctaerosae</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long-nosed_short-tailed_opossum" title="Long-nosed short-tailed opossum">Long-nosed short-tailed opossum (<i>M. scalops</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Touan_short-tailed_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Touan short-tailed opossum (page does not exist)">Touan short-tailed opossum (<i>M. touan</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/One-striped_opossum" title="One-striped opossum">One-striped opossum (<i>M. unistriata</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Voss%27s_short-tailed_opossum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Voss's short-tailed opossum (page does not exist)">Voss's short-tailed opossum (<i>M. vossi</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Gray_and_black_four-eyed_opossum" title="Gray and black four-eyed opossum">Philander</a></i><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#696969"><span class="nobold">(Gray & black four-<br />eyed opossums)</span></span></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anderson%27s_four-eyed_opossum" title="Anderson's four-eyed opossum">Anderson's four-eyed opossum (<i>P. andersoni</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Common_four-eyed_opossum" title="Common four-eyed opossum">Common four-eyed opossum (<i>P. canus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deltaic_four-eyed_opossum" title="Deltaic four-eyed opossum">Deltaic four-eyed opossum (<i>P. deltae</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeastern_four-eyed_opossum" title="Southeastern four-eyed opossum">Southeastern four-eyed opossum (<i>P. frenatus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McIlhenny%27s_four-eyed_opossum" title="McIlhenny's four-eyed opossum">McIlhenny's four-eyed opossum (<i>P. mcilhennyi</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_four-eyed_opossum" title="Dark four-eyed opossum">Dark four-eyed opossum (<i>P. melanurus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philander_nigratus" class="mw-redirect" title="Philander nigratus">Black four-eyed opossum (<i>P. nigratus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mondolfi%27s_four-eyed_opossum" title="Mondolfi's four-eyed opossum">Mondolfi's four-eyed opossum (<i>P. mondolfii</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olrog%27s_four-eyed_opossum" title="Olrog's four-eyed opossum">Olrog's four-eyed opossum (<i>P. olrogi</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gray_four-eyed_opossum" title="Gray four-eyed opossum">Gray four-eyed opossum (<i>P. opossum</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philander_pebas" class="mw-redirect" title="Philander pebas">Pebas four-eyed opossum (<i>P. pebas</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philander_quica" class="mw-redirect" title="Philander quica">Southern four-eyed opossum (<i>P. quica</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philander_vossi" class="mw-redirect" title="Philander vossi">Northern four-eyed opossum (<i>P. vossi</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Thylamys" title="Thylamys">Thylamys</a></i><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#696969"><span class="nobold">(Fat-tailed mouse<br />opossums)</span></span></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cinderella_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Cinderella fat-tailed mouse opossum">Cinderella fat-tailed mouse opossum (<i>T. cinderella</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elegant_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum">Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum (<i>T. elegans</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karimi%27s_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum">Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum (<i>T. karimii</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paraguayan_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum">Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum (<i>T. macrurus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White-bellied_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum">White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum (<i>T. pallidior</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Common_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Common fat-tailed mouse opossum">Common fat-tailed mouse opossum (<i>T. pusillus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argentine_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Argentine fat-tailed mouse opossum">Argentine fat-tailed mouse opossum (<i>T. sponsorius</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tate%27s_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum">Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum (<i>T. tatei</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwarf_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum">Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum (<i>T. velutinus</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buff-bellied_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum" title="Buff-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum">Buff-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum (<i>T. venustus</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><i><a href="/wiki/Grayish_mouse_opossum" title="Grayish mouse opossum">Tlacuatzin</a></i><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#696969"><span class="nobold">(Grey mouse<br />opossums)</span></span></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tlacuatzin_balsasensis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tlacuatzin balsasensis (page does not exist)">Balsas gray mouse opossum (<i>T. balsasensis</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tlacuatzin_canescens" class="mw-redirect" title="Tlacuatzin canescens">Tehuantepec gray mouse opossum (<i>T. canescens</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tlacuatzin_gaumeri&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tlacuatzin gaumeri (page does not exist)">Yucatan gray mouse opossum (<i>T. gaumeri</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tlacuatzin_insularis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tlacuatzin insularis (page does not exist)">Tres Marias gray mouse opossum (<i>T. insularis</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tlacuatzin_sinaloae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tlacuatzin sinaloae (page does not exist)">Northern gray mouse opossum (<i>T. sinaloae</i>)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Subfamily_Glironiinae512" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Subfamily <a href="/wiki/Glironiinae" class="mw-redirect" title="Glironiinae">Glironiinae</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Glironia16" scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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