The Peruvian short-tailed opossum (''Monodelphis peruviana'') is a species of

marsupial Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a po ...

in the family Didelphidae.It is found in

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and

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Classification

This species was initially described as ''Peramys peruvianus'' by Wilfred H. Osgood in 1913. It was later placed in the genus ''

Monodelphis ''Monodelphis'' is a genus of marsupials in the family Didelphidae, commonly referred to as short-tailed opossums. They are found throughout South America. , the most recently described species is ''M. vossi''. Species * Sepia short-tailed o ...

'' and was included under the species ''M. adusta'' (

sepia short-tailed opossum The sepia short-tailed opossum (''Monodelphis adusta'') is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae found in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=n ...

) by Cabrera (1958). S. Solari (2004), while comparing and revising diagnoses of specimens of the species ''M. adusta'' with '' Monodelphis ronaldi sp. nov.'', found that ''Monodelphis adusta peruvianus'' was differentiable from ''M. adusta''; having a shorter head-body length but longer dorsal hair than ''M. adusta''.

References

Opossums Marsupials of South America Taxa named by Wilfred Hudson Osgood {{marsupial-stub