Dry Chaco fat-tailed opossum

Thylamys pulchellus, known as the Dry Chaco fat-tailed opossum, is a species of opossum in the subfamily Didelphinae. The species is endemic to the Argentine portion of Gran Chaco. The species was also once considered to be a part of the common fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys pusillus) but is now considered a different species based on morphological and genetic differences.^[1][2][3]

Dry Chaco fat-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:	Thylamys
Species:	T. pulchellus
Binomial name
Thylamys pulchellus (Cabrera, 1934)