Large American Opossums, Mouse Opossums, and Allies
Didelphinae
The Didelphinae are a subfamily of opossums consisting of 15 genera and 98 species, one of them extinct. Specimens have been collected throughout the Americas, but are predominant in South and Central America.
4 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 124 known species
Large New World Opossums
tribeDidelphini
Mouse and Short-tailed Opossums
tribeMarmosini
Gracile Opossums
tribeThylamyini
Brown Four-eyed Opossums
tribeMetachirini
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 846215.