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Didelphidae (American opossums and opossums)

Synonyms: Didelphiidae; Didelphydae; Didelphyidae; Dryolestes tenax

Genus

Albertatherium (2)
Alphadon (8)
Amphiperatherium (12)
Andinodelphys (1)
Armintodelphys (3)
Asiadidelphis (3)
Bistius (1)
Caluromys (woolly opossums) (3)
Caluromysiops (black-shouldered opossum) (1)
Chironectes (1)
Chulpasia (2)
Cladodidelphys (1)
Coona (3)
Copedelphys (3)
Cryptonanus (2)
Derorhynchus (2)
Didelphis (common opossums) (39)
Didelphopsis (1)
Eobrasilia (1)
Esteslestes (1)
Garatherium (2)
Gaylordia (3)
Glironia (bushy-tailed opossum) (1)
Gracilinanus (gracile mouse opossums) (9)
Herpetotherium (7)
Hyladelphys (mouse opossum) (2)
Hyperdidelphys (5)
Incadelphys (1)
Indodelphis (1)
Itaboraidelphys (1)
Jaegeria (1)
Jaskhadelphys (1)
Lestodelphys (Patagonian opossum) (1)
Lutreolina (lutrine opossum) (5)
Marmosa (common mouse opossums) (22)
Marmosops (slender mouse opossums) (23)   (1)
Marmosopsis (1)
Metachirus (brown four-eyed opossum) (1)
Micoureus (woolly mouse opossums) (8)
Mimoperadectes (3)
Minusculodelphis (2)
Mizquedelphys (1)
Monodelphis (short-tailed opossums) (27)   (1)
Nanodelphys (1)
Pachybiotherium (3)
Peradectes (9)
Peratherium (11)
Philander (four-eyed opossums) (9)
Protalphadon (2)
Pucadelphys (1)
Sairadelphys (1)
Siamoperadectes (1)
Swaindelphys (3)
Thylamys (fat-tailed mouse opossums) (18)
Thylatheridium (4)
Tiulordia (1)
Tlacuatzin (gray mouse opossum) (2)
Turgidodon (7)
Varalphadon (4)
Zygolestes (2)

(...) = Species count
(...) = Endangered count
(...) = Invasive count

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0