Amazonian red-sided opossum

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| name = Amazonian red-sided opossum

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Brito, D. |author2=Astúa, D. |author3=Solari, S. |date=2021 |title=Monodelphis glirina |volume=2021 |page=e.T97249272A197321380 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T97249272A197321380.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| 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:Fauna of the Amazon

Category:Marsupials of Bolivia

Category:Marsupials of Brazil

Category:Marsupials of Peru

Category:Mammals described in 1842

Category:Taxa named by Johann Andreas Wagner

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