- Amazonian red-sided opossum
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Amazonian red-sided opossum Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Didelphimorphia Family: Didelphidae Genus: Monodelphis Species: M. glirina
(Wagner, 1842)Binomial name Monodelphis glirina 
Amazonian Red-sided Opossum range The Amazonian red-sided opossum, Monodelphis glirina, is a South American opossum species of the family Didelphidae,[2] formerly viewed as part of M. brevicaudata.[1] It is found in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru, where it inhabits the Amazon rainforest. It is omnivorous, nocturnal, and primarily nonarboreal.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Brito, D. & Astua de Moraes, D. (2008). Monodelphis glirina. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 March 2009.
- ^ Gardner, Alfred L. (16 November 2005). "Order Didelphimorphia (pp. 3-18)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=10400140.
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