Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum
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{{Taxobox | name = Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum
| status = LR/nt
| status_system = iucn2.3
| trend = unknown
| image = Caluromys philander Schreber.jpg
| image_width = 220px
| regnum = [[Animalia]]
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
| classis = [[Mammal]]ia
| infraclassis = [[Marsupialia]]
| ordo = [[Didelphimorphia]]
| familia = [[Caluromyidae]]
| genus = ''[[Caluromys]]''
| subgenus = ''[[Caluromys]]''
| species = '''''C. philander'''''
| binomial = ''Caluromys philander''
| binomial_authority = ([[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758)
| subdivision_ranks = [[Subspecies]]
| subdivision =
*''[[Caluromys philander affinis]]''
*''[[Caluromys philander dichurus]]''
*''[[Caluromys philander philander]]''
*''[[Caluromys philander trinitatis]]''
}}
'''Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum''' (''Caluromys philander''), also called the '''White-eared Opossum''' is an [[opossum]] [[species]] from [[South America]]. It is a species restricted only to moist forests.
Just like any other member of the ''[[Caluromys]]'' [[genus]], the Bare-tailed Woolly opossum is a strongly [[arboreal]] species of [[marsupial]], differing from other [[Didelphidae]] opossums for having a comparatively large [[encephalization quotient]] and smaller litter size. It feeds on fruits, nectar, invertebrates and small vertebrates.
==References==
* {{IUCN2006|assessors=New World Marsupial Specialist Group|year=1996|id=3649|title=Caluromys philander|downloaded=11 May 2006}}
*John F. Eisenberg and Kent H. Redford, 2000. Mammals of Neotropics: Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil.
* {{MSW3 Gardner|pages=4}}
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{{Didelphimorphia|C.}}
[[Category:Opossums]]
[[Category:Mammals of South America|Oppossum, Bare-tailed Woolly]]
[[Category:Mammals of Brazil|Oppossum, Bare-tailed Woolly]]
[[Category:Fauna of the Amazon|Oppossum, Bare-tailed Woolly]]
[[Category:Fauna of the Guianas|Oppossum, Bare-tailed Woolly]]
[[Category:Fauna of French Guiana|Oppossum, Bare-tailed Woolly]]
[[Category:Mammals of Guyana|Oppossum, Bare-tailed Woolly]]
[[Category:Fauna of Surinam|Oppossum, Bare-tailed Woolly]]
[[Category:Fauna of Venezuela|Oppossum, Bare-tailed Woolly]]
[[Category:Fauna of Trinidad and Tobago|Oppossum, Bare-tailed Woolly]]
[[es:Caluromys philander]]
[[fr:Caluromys philander]]
[[mt:Opossum sufi ta' denbu għarwien]]