Biology:One-striped opossum

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Short description: Species of marsupial

One-striped opossum[1]
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Genus: Monodelphis
Species:
M. unistriata
Binomial name
Monodelphis unistriata
(Wagner, 1842)
Single-striped Opossum area.png
One-striped opossum range

The one-striped opossum (Monodelphis unistriata) is a possibly extinct opossum species from South America. It is known only from two specimens found in Brazil in 1821 and Argentina in 1899.[3]

References


Wikidata ☰ Q5488250 entry