Mondolfi's four-eyed opossum

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Pérez-Hernandez, R. |author2=Ventura, J. |author3=López Fuster, M. |date=2016 |title=Philander mondolfii |volume=2016 |page=e.T136202A22176945 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T136202A22176945.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| genus = Philander

| species = mondolfii

| authority = Lew, Pérez-Hernández & Ventura, 2006

| range_map = Philander mondolfii area.png

| range_map_caption = Mondolfi's four-eyed opossum range

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Mondolfi's four-eyed opossum (Philander mondolfii) is a South American species of opossum found in Colombia and Venezuela, first described in 2006. It inhabits foothills of the Cordillera de Mérida and those on the eastern side of the Cordillera Oriental at elevations from {{convert|50|to|800|m|abbr=on}}. Populations in the two ranges may represent distinct subspecies. It is named after the Venezuelan biologist Edgardo Mondolfi.{{Cite web | last = Maybaum | first = M. A. | title = Dr. Edgardo Mondolfi (1918-1999) | work = UNEP Global 500 Laureates | publisher = United Nations Environmental Program | date = 2004-04-01 | url = http://www.global500.org/ViewLaureate.asp?ID=455 | access-date = 2011-06-11 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110604065726/http://www.global500.org/ViewLaureate.asp?ID=455 | archive-date = 2011-06-04 | url-status = dead }}{{Cite book

| last = Beolens | first = Bo |author2=Watkins, Michael |author3=Grayson, Michael

| title = The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals

| publisher = The Johns Hopkins University Press

| date = 2009-09-28 | location = Baltimore | pages = 282–283

| url = http://google.com/books?id=I-kSmWLc6vYC&pg=PA282

| isbn = 978-0-8018-9304-9| oclc = 270129903}} It has short woolly fur with a pale cream-colored venter as well as large ears pigmented on only the distal half.{{Cite book

| last = Gardner | first = Alfred L.

| title = Mammals of South America: Marsupials, xenarthrans, shrews, and bats

| publisher = University of Chicago Press | year = 2008 | pages = 669 (see p. 32)

| url = http://google.com/books?id=dbU3d7EUCm8C&pg=PA32

| isbn = 978-0-226-28240-4}} It is considered to be a junior synonym of the common four-eyed opossum by some sources, such as the Mammal Diversity Database.{{cite mdd|id=1000027|title=Philander canus (Osgood, 1913)|access-date=2024-10-14}}{{cite journal |last1=Voss |first1=Robert S. |last2=Díaz-Nieto |first2=Juan F. |last3=Jansa |first3=Sharon A. |title=A Revision of Philander (Marsupialia: Didelphidae), Part 1: P. quica, P. canus, and a New Species from Amazonia |journal=American Museum Novitates |date=January 31, 2018 |issue=3891 |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/17927dc9-f41d-4c5c-8d3a-8944f790d4f9 |access-date=14 October 2024}}