Bishop's slender opossum

Bishop's slender opossum (Marmosops bishopi) is a small, arboreal marsupial opossum native to Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia.[1] It somewhat resembles a placental rat or shrew.

Bishop's slender opossum[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Genus: Marmosops
Species:
M. bishopi
Binomial name
Marmosops bishopi
Pine, 1981[3]
Bishop's slender opossum range
Synonyms

Marmosa parvidens bishopi Pine, 1981

References
  1. Gardner, A. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. Weksler, M.; Patterson, B. & Bonvicino, C. (2008). "Marmosops bishopi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2008.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. Pine, Ronald H. (1981). "Reviews of the mouse opossums Marmosa parvidens Tate and Marmosa invicta Goldman (Mammalia: Marsupialia: Didelphidae) with description of a new species". Mammalia. 45 (1): 63–64. doi:10.1515/mamm.1981.45.1.55. S2CID 84230285.

Further reading
  • Voss, Robert S.; Lunde, Darrin P.; Simmons, Nancy B. (2001). "The Mammals of Paracou, French Guiana: A Neotropical Lowland Rainforest Fauna. Part 2, Nonvolant Species". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 263: 3–236. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2001)263<0003:TMOPFG>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/386.
  • Voss, Robert S.; Tarifa, Teresa; Yensen, Eric (2004). "An Introduction to Marmosops (Marsupialia: Didelphidae), with the Description of a New Species from Bolivia and Notes on the Taxonomy and Distribution of Other Bolivian Forms". American Museum Novitates. 3466: 15, 24–25, 33. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2004)466<0001:AITMMD>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/2776.


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