Delicate Slender Opossum
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status system
{{Taxobox
| name = Delicate Slender Opossum
| status = LR/nt
| status_system = iucn2.3
| trend = unknown
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[Mammal]]ia
| ordo = [[Didelphimorphia]]
| familia = [[Didelphidae]]
| genus = ''[[Marmosops]]''
| species = '''''M. parvidens'''''
| binomial = ''Marmosops parvidens''
| binomial_authority = ([[Tate (taxonomy)|Tate]], 1931)
}}
The '''Delicate Slender Opossum''', ''Marmosops parvidens'', is a small pouchless [[marsupial]] of the family [[Didelphidae]] that occurs in [[French Guiana]], [[Guyana]], [[Suriname]], and adjacent [[Venezuela]] and [[Brazil]]. ''[[Marmosops pinheiroi]]'', ''[[Marsops bishopi]]'' and ''[[Marmosops juninensis]]'' had long been considered to represent the same species, until ''parvidens'' and ''pinheiroi'' were found in sympatry in French Guiana.
==References==
* {{IUCN2006|assessors=New World Marsupial Specialist Group|year=1996|id=12824|title=Marmosops parvidens|downloaded=11 May 2006}}
* {{MSW3 Gardner|pages=11}}
==External links==
*[http://www.knowyoursto.com/didelphidae/marmosops.html A list of various members of genus Marmosops].
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[[Category:Opossums]]
[[Category:Mammals of South America|Opossum, Delicate Slender]]
[[Category:Mammals of Brazil|Opossum, Delicate Slender]]
[[Category:Fauna of Colombia|Opossum, Delicate Slender]]
[[Category:Fauna of the Guianas|Opossum, Delicate Slender]]
[[Category:Fauna of French Guiana|Opossum, Delicate Slender]]
[[Category:Mammals of Guyana|Opossum, Delicate Slender]]
[[Category:Fauna of Surinam|Opossum, Delicate Slender]]
[[Category:Fauna of Peru|Opossum, Delicate Slender]]
[[Category:Fauna of Venezuela|Opossum, Delicate Slender]]