Tate's woolly mouse opossum
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Species: | M. paraguayana
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Marmosa paraguayana (Tate, 1931)
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Micoureus paraguayanus |
Tate's woolly mouse opossum (Marmosa paraguayana) is an omnivorous, arboreal South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae,[2] named after American zoologist George Henry Hamilton Tate.[3] It is native to Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. The species lives in both primary and secondary forest, including forest fragments within grassland.[1] Insects are a major component of its diet.[1] It was formerly assigned to the genus Micoureus, which was made a subgenus of Marmosa in 2009.[4] While its conservation status is "least concern", its habitat is shrinking through urbanization and conversion to agriculture over much of its range.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Template:IUCN2011.2
- ^ Gardner, A.L. (2005). "Order Didelphimorphia". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009-09-28). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 405. ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9. OCLC 270129903.
- ^ Voss, R. S.; Jansa, S. A. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships and classification of didelphid marsupials, an extant radiation of New World metatherian mammals". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 322: 1–177. doi:10.1206/322.1. hdl:2246/5975.
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