Long-nosed Shrew Opossum
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{{Taxobox
| name = Long-nosed Shrew Opossum
| status = VU
| trend = down
| status_system = iucn2.3
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
| classis = [[Mammal]]ia
| infraclassis = [[Marsupialia]]
| ordo = [[Paucituberculata]]
| familia = [[Caenolestidae]]
| genus = '''''Rhyncholestes'''''
| genus_authority = [[Wilfred Hudson Osgood|Osgood]], 1924
| species = '''''R. raphanurus'''''
| binomial = ''Rhyncholestes raphanurus''
| binomial_authority = [[Wilfred Hudson Osgood|Osgood]], 1924
| subdivision_ranks = [[Subspecies]]
| subdivision =
*''[[Rhyncholestes raphanurus continentalis|R. r. continentalis]]''
*''[[Rhyncholestes raphanurus raphanurus|R. r. raphanurus]]''
}}
The '''Long-nosed Shrew Opossum''' (''Rhyncholestes raphanurus'') is one of six surviving species of [[shrew opossum]]. It is a small [[marsupial]] that lives in old growth [[evergreen]] [[temperate]] [[forests]] in [[Chile]] and [[Argentina]]. It is somewhat unique among shrew opossums and, as such, is the only species in its genus, '''''Rhyncholestes'''''.
It is an [[vulnerable species]] included in the [[Red List]] of [[threatened species]].
==References==
* {{IUCN2006|assessors=New World Marsupial Specialist Group|year=1996|id=19710|title=Rhyncholestes raphanurus|downloaded=11 May 2006}} Listed as Vulnerable (VU A1c v2.3)
*{{MSW3 Gardner|pages=19-20}}
== External links ==
*{{ITIS|ID=552589|taxon=''Rhyncholestes raphanurus''}}
*[http://www.cricyt.edu.ar/institutos/iadiza/ojeda/marsupiales/Rhyncholestes%20raphanurus.htm ''Rhyncholestes raphanurus'' image]
{{Paucituberculata}}
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[[Category:Shrew opossums]]
[[Category:Mammals of South America]]
[[Category:Marsupials of Argentina]]
[[Category:Marsupials of Chile]]
[[de:Chilenische Opossummaus]]
[[es:Rhyncholestes]]
[[fr:Rhyncholestes raphanurus]]
[[it: Rhyncholestes raphanurus]]
[[mt:Opossum ġurdiem ta' geddumu twil ta' mnieħru twil]]
[[zh:智利袋鼠]]