Brown-eared Woolly Opossum
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Frickeg
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status system
{{Taxobox | name = Brown-eared Woolly Opossum
| status = LR/nt
| status_system = iucn2.3
| trend = unknown
| regnum = [[Animalia]]
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
| classis = [[Mammal]]ia
| infraclassis = [[Marsupialia]]
| ordo = [[Didelphimorphia]]
| familia = [[Caluromyidae]]
| genus = ''[[Caluromys]]''
| subgenus = ''[[Mallodelphys]]''
| species = '''''C. lanatus'''''
| binomial = ''Caluromys lanatus''
| binomial_authority = ([[Ignaz von Olfers|Olfers]], 1818)
| subdivision_ranks = [[Subspecies]]
| subdivision =
*''[[Caluromys lanatus cicur]]''
*''[[Caluromys lanatus lanatus]]''
*''[[Caluromys lanatus nattereri]]''
*''[[Caluromys lanatus ochropus]]''
*''[[Caluromys lanatus orntus]]''
*''[[Caluromys lanatus vitalinus]]''
}}
The '''Brown-eared Woolly Opossum''' (''Caluromys lanatus''), also known as the '''Ecuadoran''' or '''Western Woolly Opossum''', is a [[woolly opossum]] [[species]] from [[South America]]. It is restricted to moist forests.
Just like any other member of the ''[[Caluromys]]'' [[genus]], the Brown-eared 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. The tail is long and heavy in more than half of its extension.
It feeds on fruits, nectar, invertebrates and small vertebrates.
==References==
* {{IUCN2006|assessors=New World Marsupial Specialist Group|year=1996|id=3648|title=Caluromys lanatus|downloaded=11 May 2006}}
*John F. Eisenberg and Kent H. Redford, 2000. Mammals of Neotropics: Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil.
* {{MSW3 Gardner|pages=3}}
{{Didelphimorphia|C.}}
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[[Category:Opossums]]
[[Category:Mammals of South America|Oppossum, Brown-eared]]
[[Category:Mammals of Guyana|Oppossum, Brown-eared]]
[[es:Caluromys lanatus]]
[[fr:Caluromys lanatus]]
[[mt:Opossum sufi tal-widnejn kannella]]
[[nl:Rode wolhaarbuidelrat]]