Gray slender opossum

The gray slender opossum (Marmosops incanus), is an opossum species from Brazil.

Gray slender opossum[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Genus: Marmosops
Species:
M. incanus
Binomial name
Marmosops incanus
(Lund, 1841)
Gray slender opossum range

This species is a semi-arboreal marsupial, moving on average 67.38% on the ground.[3] They are solitary, nocturnal, and scansorial (tree climbers).[4] They live off a diet of mainly insects.[5]

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. 11. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. Brito, D.; Astua de Moraes, D.; Lew, D.; Soriano, P. & Emmons, L. (2008). "Marmosops incanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2008.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. Loretto, Diogo; Vieira, Marcus Vinícius (July 2008). "Use of space by the marsupial Marmosops incanus (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil". Mammalian Biology. 73 (4): 255–261. doi:10.1016/j.mambio.2007.11.015. ISSN 1616-5047.
  4. Semedo, Thiago Borges Fernandes; Rossi, Rogério Vieira; Júnior, Tarcísio S. Santos (2013-01-01). "New records of the Spectacled Slender Opossum Marmosops ocellatus (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) with comments on its geographic distribution limits". Mammalia. 77 (2). doi:10.1515/mammalia-2012-0072. ISSN 1864-1547. S2CID 84602782.
  5. da Fonseca, Gustavo A.B. (1985). "The vanishing Brazilian Atlantic forest". Biological Conservation. 34 (1): 17–34. doi:10.1016/0006-3207(85)90055-2. ISSN 0006-3207.


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