FAUNA PARAGUAY

HANDBOOK OF THE MAMMALS OF PARAGUAY

VOL 1: MARSUPIALIA

2009 EDITION

By PAUL SMITH

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Photographs provided by : Paul Smith, Sylvia Qu, Philip Myers, Alberto Esquivel, Teatske Nieuborg, José Luis Cartes, Flavia Netto and ECOSARA Biodiversity Database.

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CONTENTS

1a Introduction to the Paraguayan Marsupialia - 4

1b Taxonomy of the Didelphimorphia - 5

2 Family Didelphidae: Opossums - 6

3 Key to the Adult Opossums of Paraguay - 7

4 Subfamily Caluromyinae - 9

5 Brown-eared Woolly Opossum Caluromys lanatus - 10

6 Subfamily Didelphinae - 15

7 GenusChironectes - 16

8 Water Opossum Chironectes minimus - 17

9 Genus Didelphis - 25

10 White-eared Opossum Didelphis albiventris - 26

11 Southern Black-eared Opossum Didelphis aurita - 35

12 Genus Lutreolina - 43

13 Thick-tailed Opossum Lutreolina crassicaudata - 44

14 Genus Philander - 50

15 Southeastern Four-eyed Opossum Philander frenatus - 51

16 Genus Metachirus - 60

17 Brown Four-eyed Opossum Metachirus nudicaudatus - 61

18 Genus Cryptonanus - 67

19 Chaco Mouse Opossum Cryptonanus chacoensis - 68

20 Genus Gracilinanus - 72

21 Agile Mouse Opossum Gracilinanus agilis - 73

22 Genus Micoureus - 80

23 Long-furred Woolly Mouse Opossum Micoureus paraguayanus - 82

24 Genus Thylamys - 90

25 Long-tailed Fat-tailed Opossum Thylamys macrurus - 92

26 Chaco Fat-tailed Opossum Thylamys pusillus - 98

27 Genus Monodelphis - 104

28 Grey Short-tailed Opossum Monodelphis domestica - 106

29 Pygmy Short-tailed Opossum Monodelphis kunsi - 111

30 Red-sided Short-tailed Opossum Monodelphis sorex - 114

31 Acknowledgements - 119

32 Complete Bibliography - 120

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