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Bishop's slender opossum

{{Short description|Species of marsupial}}

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| name = Bishop's slender opossum{{MSW3 Gardner | pages = 10 | id = 10400092}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Tarifa, T. |date=2016 |title=Marmosops bishopi |volume=2016 |page=e.T136296A22178294 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T136296A22178294.en |access-date=13 November 2021}}

| genus = Marmosops

| species = bishopi

| authority = Pine, 1981

| synonyms = Marmosa parvidens bishopi {{small|Pine, 1981}}

| range_map = Marmosops bishopi area.png

| range_map_caption = Bishop's slender opossum range

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Bishop's slender opossum (Marmosops bishopi) is a small, arboreal marsupial opossum native to Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia. It somewhat resembles a placental rat or shrew.

References

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{{cite journal|last1=Pine|first1=Ronald H.|title=Reviews of the mouse opossums Marmosa parvidens Tate and Marmosa invicta Goldman (Mammalia: Marsupialia: Didelphidae) with description of a new species|journal=Mammalia|date=1981|volume=45|issue=1|pages=63–64|doi=10.1515/mamm.1981.45.1.55|s2cid=84230285|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249943389}}

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Further reading

  • {{cite journal|last1=Voss|first1=Robert S.|last2=Lunde|first2=Darrin P.|last3=Simmons|first3=Nancy B.|title=The Mammals of Paracou, French Guiana: A Neotropical Lowland Rainforest Fauna. Part 2, Nonvolant Species|journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History|date=2001|volume=263|pages=3–236|doi=10.1206/0003-0090(2001)263<0003:TMOPFG>2.0.CO;2|hdl=2246/386|s2cid=83659613 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/5378847 |hdl-access=free}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Voss|first1=Robert S.|last2=Tarifa|first2=Teresa|last3=Yensen|first3=Eric|title=An Introduction to Marmosops (Marsupialia: Didelphidae), with the Description of a New Species from Bolivia and Notes on the Taxonomy and Distribution of Other Bolivian Forms|journal=American Museum Novitates|date=2004|issue=3466|pages=15, 24–25, 33|doi=10.1206/0003-0082(2004)466<0001:AITMMD>2.0.CO;2|hdl=2246/2776|s2cid=83490188 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/4735089 |hdl-access=free}}

{{Didelphimorphia|D.}}

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Category:Opossums

Category:Mammals described in 1981

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