Amazonian red-sided opossum
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| name = Amazonian red-sided opossum
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Monodelphis
| species = glirina
| authority = (Wagner, 1842)
| range_map = Amazonian Red-sided Opossum area.png
| range_map_caption = Amazonian red-sided opossum range
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The Amazonian red-sided opossum (Monodelphis glirina) is a South American opossum species of the family Didelphidae,{{MSW3 Didelphimorphia | id = 10400140 | page = 14}} formerly viewed as part of M. brevicaudata. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru, where it inhabits the Amazon rainforest. It is omnivorous, nocturnal, and primarily nonarboreal.
References
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- {{cite journal|last1=Castilheiro|first1=W. F. F.|last2= Santos Filho|first2=M. dos|title=Diet of Monodelphis glirina (Mammalia: Didelphidae) in forest fragments in southern Amazon|journal= Zoologia (Curitiba)|volume= 30|issue= 3|date= June 2013|pages= 249–254|doi= 10.1590/S1984-46702013000300001|doi-access= free|s2cid=54222034 }}
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Category:Short-tailed opossums
Category:Marsupials of Bolivia
Category:Mammals described in 1842
Category:Taxa named by Johann Andreas Wagner
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