Thylamys

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Thylamys[1]
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Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Infraclass:
Marsupialia
Order:
Didelphimorphia
Family:
Didelphidae
Genus:
Thylamys

Gray, 1843
Type species
Didelphis elegans
Species

See text

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Thylamys is a genus of opossum in the family Didelphidae. The premaxillae are rounded rather than pointed. The females lack a pouch. The females' nipples are arranged in two symmetrical rows on the abdomen[2] All species but T. macrurus store fat in their tails.,[3] although this is not necessarily true for all species in the genus.[4]

The genus contains the following species:

Fossils belonging to the genus date back to the Miocene, with the oldest specimens being found in Argentina and Colombia.[8] Genetic studies indicate that the genus may have originated around 14 million years ago.[9]

References

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  5. ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/199835/0
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