Little woolly mouse opossum
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Genus: | Marmosa |
| Subgenus: | Micoureus |
| Species: | M. phaea
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| Binomial name | |
| Marmosa phaea Thomas, 1899
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| Little woolly mouse opossum range | |
| Synonyms | |
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Micoureus phaeus (Thomas, 1899) | |
The little woolly mouse opossum (Marmosa phaea) is a nocturnal, arboreal and mainly solitary species of South American marsupial in 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 1,500 metres (4,900 ft).[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] It was formerly assigned to the genus Micoureus, which was made a subgenus of Marmosa in 2009.[3] Its conservation status is vulnerable, due to habitat fragmentation and continuing loss of habitat via urbanization and conversion to agriculture.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Solari, S.; Patterson, B. (2015). "Marmosa phaea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T136244A22175055. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T136244A22175055.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ 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.