Tyler's mouse opossum

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Tyler's mouse opossum[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Infraclass:
Marsupialia
Order:
Didelphimorphia
Family:
Didelphidae
Subfamily:
Didelphinae
Genus:
Marmosa
Subgenus:
Marmosa
Species:
M. tyleriana
Binomial name
Marmosa tyleriana
Tate, 1931
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Tyler's mouse opossum range

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Tyler's mouse opossum (Marmosa tyleriana) is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae.[2] It lives in rainforests of the Guiana Highlands of southern Venezuela at elevations between 1300 and 2200 m.[1] The species has only been found on three isolated tepuis (Auyantepui, Marahuaca and Sarisariñama).[1] All three of these locations are in protected areas (Canaima, Duida-Marahuaca and Jaua-Sarisariñama national parks).

The Latin species name refers to the habitat in which the opossum was first found, a Tyleria forest. In turn, both the genus Tyleria and the opossum's common name refer to Sidney F .Tyler, an American historian and photographer who helped finance the 1928-29 expedition of the American Museum of Natural History to the headwaters of the Orinoco, during which the opossum was discovered.[3]

References

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