Dusky Shrew Opossum 2999248 207275364 2008-04-22T02:57:57Z Frickeg 2903722 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}} {{marsupial-stub}} [[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]]