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Eastern caenolestid
Species of marsupial / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The eastern caenolestid (Caenolestes sangay) is a shrew opossum found on the eastern slopes of the Andes in southern Ecuador.[2]
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Eastern caenolestid | |
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Holotype, Sangay National Park, Ecuador | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Paucituberculata |
Family: | Caenolestidae |
Genus: | Caenolestes |
Species: | C. sangay |
Binomial name | |
Caenolestes sangay Ojala-Barbour et al., 2013 | |
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