| Chacoan gracile opossum [1] | |
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Genus: | Cryptonanus |
| Species: | C. chacoensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Cryptonanus chacoensis (
Tate, 1931)
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| Chacoan gracile opossum range | |
The chacoan gracile opossum (Cryptonanus chacoensis) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. [3] It is native to Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Its habitat is seasonally flooded grasslands and forests [2] in and near the Gran Chaco.
References
- ^ Voss, R.S.; Lunde, D.P.; Jansa; S.A. (2005). "On the contents of Gracilinanus Gardner & Creighton, 1989, with the description of a previously unrecognized clade of small didelphid marsupials". American Museum Novitates (3482): 1–34. doi: 10.1206/0003-0082(2005)482[0001:OTCOGG]2.0.CO;2. hdl: 2246/5673. S2CID 84269504.
- ^ a b Teta, P.; Martin, G.M. (2016). "Cryptonanus chacoensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T136845A22177997. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T136845A22177997.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ 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. pp. 6–7. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- Tate, G.H.H. (1931). "Brief diagnoses of twenty-six apparently new forms of Marmosa (Marsupialia) from South America". American Museum Novitates (493): 1–14. hdl: 2246/3835.
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