Narrow-headed slender opossum

Narrow-headed slender opossum
Narrow-headed Slender Opossum[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Genus: Marmosops
Species: M. cracens
Binomial name
Marmosops cracens
Handley & Gordon, 1979
Narrow-headed Slender Opossum range

The Narrow-headed Slender Opossum (Marmosops cracens) is a species of opossum in the Didelphidae family. It is endemic to Venezuela.[2]

They have been on the nearly extinct list for 40 years and will remain. They say only 1/420 people around that area will ever see one.

References

  1. ^ Gardner, Alfred (16 November 2005). Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 10. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3. 
  2. ^ a b Weksler, M., Patterson, B. & Bonvicino, C. (2008). Marmosops cracens. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 December 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is data deficient
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