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Bishop's slender opossum
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Didelphimorphia
Family:	Didelphidae
Genus:	Marmosops
Species:	M. bishopi
Binomial name
Marmosops bishopi Pine, 1981
Bishop's slender opossum range
Synonyms
Marmosa parvidens bishopi Pine, 1981

Bishop's slender opossum (Marmosops bishopi) is a small, arboreal marsupial opossum native to Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia. It somewhat resembles a placental rat or shrew.

References

1. ^ Gardner, A. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
2. Tarifa, T. (2016). "Marmosops bishopi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T136296A22178294. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T136296A22178294.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
3. Pine, Ronald H. (1981). "Reviews of the mouse opossums Marmosa parvidens Tate and Marmosa invicta Goldman (Mammalia: Marsupialia: Didelphidae) with description of a new species". Mammalia. 45 (1): 63–64. doi:10.1515/mamm.1981.45.1.55. S2CID 84230285.

Further reading

• Voss, Robert S.; Lunde, Darrin P.; Simmons, Nancy B. (2001). "The Mammals of Paracou, French Guiana: A Neotropical Lowland Rainforest Fauna. Part 2, Nonvolant Species". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 263: 3–236. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2001)263<0003:TMOPFG>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/386. S2CID 83659613.
• Voss, Robert S.; Tarifa, Teresa; Yensen, Eric (2004). "An Introduction to Marmosops (Marsupialia: Didelphidae), with the Description of a New Species from Bolivia and Notes on the Taxonomy and Distribution of Other Bolivian Forms". American Museum Novitates (3466): 15, 24–25, 33. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2004)466<0001:AITMMD>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/2776. S2CID 83490188.

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