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Mouse Opossums
Marmosa
The nineteen species in the genus Marmosa are relatively small Neotropic members of the family Didelphidae. This genus is one of three that are known as mouse opossums. The others are Thylamys (the "fat-tailed mouse opossums") and Tlacuatzin, the grayish mouse opossum. Members of the genus Marmosops used to be called "slender mouse opossums", but are now just called "slender opossums". The six members of the Marmosa subgenus Micoureus, known as "woolly mouse opossums", were formerly...
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 27 known species
Exulomarmosa
subgenusExulomarmosa
Marmosa
subgenusMarmosa
Woolly Mouse Opossums
subgenusMicoureus
Stegomarmosa
subgenusStegomarmosa
Waterhouse's Mouse Opossum
speciesMarmosa waterhousei
Eomarmosa
subgenusEomarmosa
Marmosa chachapoya
speciesMarmosa chachapoya
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 42663.