- Little woolly mouse opossum
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Little woolly mouse opossum Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Marsupialia Order: Didelphimorphia Family: Didelphidae Genus: Micoureus Species: M. phaeus Binomial name Micoureus phaeus
(Thomas, 1899)
Little Woolly Mouse Opossum range The little woolly mouse opossum (Micoureus phaeus) is a nocturnal, arboreal and mainly solitary South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae.[2] It is native to the western slopes of the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, where it lives at altitudes from sea level to 1500 m.[1] It primarily inhabits lowland rainforest and montane cloud forest, although it has been reported from dry forest in the southern end of its range.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Solari, S. & Patterson, B. (2008). Micoureus phaeus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 March 2009.
- ^ Gardner, Alfred L. (16 November 2005). "Order Didelphimorphia (pp. 3-18)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=10400128.
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