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    Shrew opossum
    family Caenolestidae contains the seven surviving species of shrew opossum: small, shrew-like marsupials that are confined to the Andes mountains of South...
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    Long-nosed caenolestid (redirect from Chilean Shrew Opossum)
    (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...
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    Marsupial
    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...
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    Tenrec
    group; as a result of convergent evolution, some resemble hedgehogs, shrews, opossums, rats, and mice. They occupy aquatic, arboreal, terrestrial, and fossorial...
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  • Opossum (disambiguation)
    or opossom may also refer to: Shrew opossum, only 7 living marsupials species of order Paucituberculata. Colocolo opossum, also known as monito del monte...
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  • List of mammals of South America (section Order: Paucituberculata (shrew opossums))
    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...
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  • List of mammals of Argentina (section Order: Paucituberculata (shrew opossums))
    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...
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  • List of mammals of Colombia (section Order: Paucituberculata (shrew opossums))
    Philander opossum LR/lc There are six extant species of shrew opossum. They are small shrew-like marsupials confined to the Andes. Family: Caenolestidae...
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  • List of mammals of Ecuador (section Order: Paucituberculata (shrew opossums))
    Philander opossum LR/lc There are six extant species of shrew opossum. They are small shrew-like marsupials confined to the Andes. Family: Caenolestidae...
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    List of mammals of Peru (section Order: Paucituberculata (shrew opossums))
    fat-tailed mouse opossum, Thylamys pallidior LR/lc Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum, Thylamys tatei DD There are six extant species of shrew opossum. They are...
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