Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum (''Thylamys tatei'') is a species of

opossum Opossums () are members of the marsupial order Didelphimorphia () endemic to the Americas. The largest order of marsupials in the Western Hemisphere, it comprises 93 species in 18 genera. Opossums originated in South America and entered North ...

in the family Didelphidae, named after American zoologist

George Henry Hamilton Tate George Henry Hamilton Tate (April 30, 1894 – December 24, 1953) was a British-born American zoologist and botanist, who worked as a mammalogist for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In his lifetime he wrote several book ...

. It is found at elevations of 300 to 3,000 m along the coast of central

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. The species has the northernmost range of any member of its genus. It has white ventral fur and short condylobasal and zygomatic lengths. ''T. pallidior'' is very similar.

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Opossums Mammals of Peru Mammals described in 1957 {{marsupial-stub