family Caenolestidae contains the seven surviving species of shrew opossum: small, shrew-like marsupials that are confined to the Andes mountains of South...

(Rhyncholestes raphanurus), also known as the Chilean shrew opossum or long-nosed shrew opossum, is a shrew opossum that occurs in temperate forests of Argentina...

or opossom may also refer to: Shrew opossum, only 7 living marsupials species of order Paucituberculata. Colocolo opossum, also known as monito del monte...

whereas in others the pouch develops during gestation, as with the shrew opossum, where the young are hidden only by skin folds or in the fur of the...

Buff-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum, Thylamys venustus DD There are six extant species of shrew opossum. They are small shrew-like marsupials confined to...

group; as a result of convergent evolution, some resemble hedgehogs, shrews, opossums, rats, and mice. They occupy aquatic, arboreal, terrestrial, and fossorial...

to which most Western hemisphere opossums belong (excluding the seven species of shrew opossums). The common opossum is currently not an endangered species...

Philander opossum LR/lc There are six extant species of shrew opossum. They are small shrew-like marsupials confined to the Andes. Family: Caenolestidae...

caenolestid (Caenolestes fuliginosus), also known as Tate's shrew opossum, is a shrew opossum from South America. The dusky caenolestid is characterized...

Buff-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum, Thylamys venustus DD There are six extant species of shrew opossum. They are small shrew-like marsupials confined to...