family Caenolestidae contains the seven surviving species of shrew opossum: small, shrew-like marsupials that are confined to the Andes mountains of South...

(Rhyncholestes raphanurus), also known as the Chilean shrew opossum or long-nosed shrew opossum, is a shrew opossum that occurs in temperate forests of Argentina...

whereas in others the pouch develops during gestation, as with the shrew opossum, where the young are hidden only by skin folds or in the fur of the...

or opossom may also refer to: Shrew opossum, only 7 living marsupials species of order Paucituberculata. Colocolo opossum, also known as monito del monte...

Philander opossum LR/lc There are six extant species of shrew opossum. They are small shrew-like marsupials confined to the Andes. Family: Caenolestidae...

Buff-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum, Thylamys venustus DD There are six extant species of shrew opossum. They are small shrew-like marsupials confined to...

The Incan caenolestid (Lestoros inca), also known as the Incan shrew opossum or Peruvian caenolestid, is a caenolestid found in the southern Peruvian...

caenolestid (Caenolestes fuliginosus), also known as Tate's shrew opossum, is a shrew opossum from South America. The dusky caenolestid is characterized...

Philander opossum LR/lc There are six extant species of shrew opossum. They are small shrew-like marsupials confined to the Andes. Family: Caenolestidae...

group; as a result of convergent evolution, some resemble hedgehogs, shrews, opossums, rats, and mice. They occupy aquatic, arboreal, terrestrial, and fossorial...