Common opossum
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For the possum of North America, see Virginia opossum. For other related terms, see Possum (disambiguation).
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Common opossum[1] | |
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In an urban area of Caracas, Venezuela | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Didelphimorphia |
Family: | Didelphidae |
Genus: | Didelphis |
Species: | D. marsupialis |
Binomial name | |
Didelphis marsupialis | |
Common opossum range | |
Synonyms | |
Didelphis marsupialis marsupialis |
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The common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis), also called the southern or black-eared opossum[2] or gambá, and sometimes called a possum, is a marsupial species living from the northeast of Mexico to Bolivia (reaching the coast of the South Pacific Ocean to the central coast of Peru), including Trinidad and Tobago and the Windwards in the Caribbean,[2] where it is called manicou.[3] It prefers the woods, but can also live in fields and cities.