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Didelphinae  Gray, 1821
Taxonomic Serial No.: 552338

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subfamily  
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  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2006   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassMetatheria Huxley, 1880  
                               OrderDidelphimorphia Gill, 1872 – cuica, didelfimorfo, gambá, marsupial, mucura, marsupials, American marsupials  
                                  FamilyDidelphidae Gray, 1821 – opossoms, American opossums  
                                     SubfamilyDidelphinae Gray, 1821  
    Direct Children:  
                                        Genus Chironectes Illiger, 1811 – water opossum, yapok 
                                        Genus Didelphis Linnaeus, 1758 – large American opossums 
                                        Genus Gracilinanus Gardner and Creighton, 1989  
                                        Genus Hyladelphys Voss, Lunde, and Simmons, 2001  
                                        Genus Lestodelphys Tate, 1934 – Patagonian opposum 
                                        Genus Lutreolina Thomas, 1910 – thick-tailed opossum 
                                        Genus Marmosa Gray, 1821 – mouse opossums 
                                        Genus Marmosops Matschie, 1916  
                                        Genus Metachirus Burmeister, 1854 – brown four-eyed opossum 
                                        Genus Micoureus Lesson, 1842  
                                        Genus Monodelphis Burnett, 1830 – short-tailed opossums 
                                        Genus Philander Brisson, 1762 – black four-eyed opossums, gray four-eyed opossums 
                                        Genus Thylamys Gray, 1843  
                                        Genus Tlacuatzin Voss and Jansa, 2003  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Alfred L. Gardner  
  Notes: Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA   
  Reference for: Didelphinae    
       
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Didelphinae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 2142   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Didelphinae   
       

 Geographic Information
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: Comments: Hershkovitz (1992a) restricted the Didelphinae to the genera Chironectes, Didelphis, Philander, and Lutreolina. Hershkovitz (1997) further restricted the Didelphinae by establishing Chironectinae and Lutreolininae for Chironectes and Lutreolina, respectively  
 

 

    

 
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