Emilia's gracile opossum (''Gracilinanus emiliae'') is an
opossum species
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from
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...
. It is found in
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
,
Colombia,
French Guiana
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,
Suriname.
References
Opossums
Marsupials of South America
Mammals of Brazil
Mammals of Colombia
Mammals of Guyana
Mammals of Suriname
Mammals described in 1909
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
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