Dusky Shrew Opossum
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status system
{{Taxobox
| name = Dusky Shrew Opossum
| status = LR/lc
| status_system = iucn2.3
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[Mammalia]]
| infraclassis = [[Marsupialia]]
| ordo = [[Paucituberculata]]
| familia = [[Caenolestidae]]
| genus = ''[[Caenolestes]]''
| species = '''''C. fuliginosus'''''
| binomial = ''Caenolestes fuliginosus''
| binomial_authority = [[Robert Fisher Tomes|Tomes]], 1863
| subdivision_ranks = [[Subspecies]]
| subdivision =
*''[[Caenolestes fuliginosus centralis|C. f. centralis]]''
*''[[Caenolestes fuliginosus fuliginosus|C. f. fuliginosus]]''
*''[[Caenolestes fuliginosus obscurus|C. f. obscurus]]''
}}
The '''Dusky Shrew Opossum''' (''Caenolestes fuliginosus''), also known as the '''Silky Shrew Opposum''', is a small [[marsupial]] that lives in the alpine forests and meadows of the [[Andes]]. Its range stretches across [[Colombia]], [[Ecuador]], and northwestern [[Venezuela]]. It is the best known of the six surviving species of the order [[Paucituberculata]] (shrew opossums).
==References==
* {{IUCN2006|assessors=New World Marsupial Specialist Group|year=1996|id=41506|title=Caenolestes fuliginosus|downloaded=12 May 2006}}
*{{MSW3 Gardner|pages=19}}
== External links ==
*[http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Caenolestes_fuliginosus.html Animal Diversity Web entry for Caenolestes fuliginosus]
*[http://nmnhgoph.si.edu/cgi-bin/wdb/msw/names/query/1093 MSW entry for Caenolestes fuliginosus]
*[http://www.brainmuseum.org/specimens/marsupalia/shrewopossum/ Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections: Shrew opossum (Caenolestes fuliginosus)]
{{Paucituberculata}}
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[[Category:Shrew opossums]]
[[Category:Fauna of Colombia|Opossum, Dusky Shrew]]
[[Category:Fauna of Ecuador|Opossum, Dusky Shrew]]
[[Category:Fauna of Venezuela|Opossum, Dusky Shrew]]
[[es:Caenolestes#Caenolestes_fuliginosus]]
[[it:Caenolestes fuliginosus]]
[[mt:Opossum ġurdiem ta' geddumu twil skur]]
[[nl:Ecuadoropossummuis]]
[[pl:Zbójnik]]