The bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum[2] (Marmosa regina) or short-furred woolly mouse opossum[1] is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae.[2] Its range includes Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. It is found in tropical rainforest in the westernmost portion of the Amazon Basin and the eastern foothills of the Andes, at elevations up to 1634 m.[1] It was formerly assigned to the genus Micoureus, which was made a subgenus of Marmosa in 2009.[3] Some sources, such as the American Society of Mammalogists,[4] believe this species is a synonym of the Isthmian mouse opossum.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Genus: | Marmosa |
| Subgenus: | Micoureus |
| Species: | M. regina
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| Binomial name | |
| Marmosa regina (Thomas, 1898)
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| Synonyms | |
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Micoureus regina (Thomas, 1898) | |
References
edit- ^ a b c Solari, S.; Tarifa, T.; Astúa, D.; Cáceres, N. (2021). "Marmosa regina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T40511A197309306. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T40511A197309306.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ a b Gardner, A.L. (2005). "Order Didelphimorphia". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Voss, R. S.; Jansa, S. A. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships and classification of didelphid marsupials, an extant radiation of New World metatherian mammals". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 322: 1–177. doi:10.1206/322.1. hdl:2246/5975. S2CID 85017821.
- ^ "Marmosa isthmica E. A. Goldman, 1912". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
- ^ Giarla, Thomas C.; Voss, Robert S. (10 September 2020). "On the identity of Victoria's Mouse Opossum, Marmosa regina Thomas, 1898". American Museum Novitates (3960). Retrieved 18 October 2024.
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