Peruvian short-tailed opossum

The Peruvian short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis peruviana) is a species of marsupial in the family Didelphidae^[1].It is found in Bolivia and Peru.^[1]

Peruvian short-tailed opossum
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Didelphimorphia
Family:	Didelphidae
Genus:	Monodelphis
Species:	M. peruviana
Binomial name
Monodelphis peruviana (Osgood, 1913)[2]

Classification

This species was initially described as Peramys peruvianus by Wilfred H. Osgood in 1913.^[2] It was later placed in the genus Monodelphis and was included under the species M. adusta (sepia short-tailed opossum) by Cabrera (1958).^[3] S. Solari (2004), while comparing and revising diagnoses of specimens of the species M. adusta with Monodelphis ronaldi sp. nov., found that Monodelphis adusta peruvianus was differentiable from M. adusta; having a shorter head-body length but longer dorsal hair than M. adusta.^[3]