Delicate Slender Opossum 2084168 207271686 2008-04-22T02:35:26Z Frickeg 2903722 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]. {{Didelphimorphia|D.1}} {{marsupial-stub}} [[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]]