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White-eared opossum
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species of mammal
Species
Observations: The longevity of these animals is unknown, though they have been known to live for 1.7 years (Fisher et al. 2001).
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- Didelphis
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- Família de Gambás-de-orelha-branca (Didelphis albiventris).jpg
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- Least Concern
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- Didelphis albiventris
- taxon name
- Didelphis albiventris
- taxon common name
- Gemeines Weißohropossum
- taxon range
- Aragarças
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Encyclopedic overview
The white-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris), known as the timbu and cassaco in northeast Brazil, saruê and sariguê in Bahia, micurê and mucura in northern Brazil and comadreja overa and zarigüeya in Argentina, is an opossum species found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It is a terrestrial and, sometimes, arboreal animal, and a habitat generalist, living in a wide range of different habitats.
For some time, this species was incorrectly known by the name D. azarae, correctly applied to the big-eared opossum. This led to azarae's discontinuation as a species name. From 1993 until 2002, this species also included the Guianan white-eared opossum (D. imperfecta) and the Andean white-eared opossum (D. pernigra) as subspecies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “White-eared opossum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.