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Amazonian red-sided opossum

species of mammal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ194488 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Amazonian red-sided opossum (Monodelphis glirina) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae, formerly viewed as part of M. brevicaudata. It is found in South America (Bolivia, Brazil and Peru), where it inhabits the Amazon rainforest. It is omnivorous, nocturnal, and primarily nonarboreal.

References

Castilheiro, W. F. F.; Santos Filho, M. dos (June 2013). "Diet of Monodelphis glirina (Mammalia: Didelphidae) in forest fragments in southern Amazon". Zoologia (Curitiba). 30 (3): 249–254. doi:10.1590/S1984-46702013000300001. S2CID 54222034.

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This entry incorporates text from “Amazonian red-sided opossum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.