Northern red-sided opossum
The northern red-sided opossum or the Guianan short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis brevicaudata, is an opossum species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil. French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.
| Northern red-sided opossum | |
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| Northern red-sided opossum illustration | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Genus: | Monodelphis |
| Species: | M. brevicaudata |
| Binomial name | |
| Monodelphis brevicaudata (Erxleben, 1777) | |
| Northern red-sided opossum range | |
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