THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Didelphidae · Clear filter
84 records · page 1 of 2
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Derby's Woolly OpossumCaluromys derbianus (Waterhouse, 1841) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-shouldered OpossumCaluromysiops irrupta Sanborn, 1951 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pygmy OpossumChacodelphys formosa (Shamel, 1930) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Water OpossumChironectes minimus (Zimmermann, 1780) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chacoan Mouse OpossumCryptonanus chacoensis (Tate, 1931) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Unduavi Mouse OpossumCryptonanus unduaviensis (Tate, 1931) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Big-eared OpossumDidelphis aurita Wied-Neuwied, 1826 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Guianan White-eared OpossumDidelphis imperfecta Mondolfi & Pérez-Hernández, 1984 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common OpossumDidelphis marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andean White-eared OpossumDidelphis pernigra J. A. Allen, 1900 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Virginia OpossumDidelphis virginiana Kerr, 1792 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bushy-tailed OpossumGlironia venusta Thomas, 1912 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Agile Gracile OpossumGracilinanus agilis (Burmeister, 1854) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Wood Sprite Gracile OpossumGracilinanus dryas (Thomas, 1898) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northern Gracile OpossumGracilinanus marica (Thomas, 1898) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brazilian Gracile OpossumGracilinanus microtarsus (Wagner, 1842) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kalinowski's Mouse OpossumHyladelphys kalinowskii (Hershkovitz, 1992) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Big Lutrine OpossumLutreolina crassicaudata (Desmarest, 1804) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Massoia's Lutrine OpossumLutreolina massoia Martínez-Lanfranco et al., 2014 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red Mouse OpossumMarmosa (Eomarmosa) rubra Tate, 1931 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Panama Mouse OpossumMarmosa (Exulomarmosa) isthmica Goldman, 1912 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mexican Mouse OpossumMarmosa (Exulomarmosa) mexicana Merriam, 1897 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Linnaeus's Mouse OpossumMarmosa (Exulomarmosa) murina (Linnaeus, 1758) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Robinson's Mouse OpossumMarmosa (Exulomarmosa) robinsoni Bangs, 1898 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dryland Mouse OpossumMarmosa (Exulomarmosa) xerophila Handley & Gordon, 1979 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Zeledon's Mouse OpossumMarmosa (Exulomarmosa) zeledoni Goldman, 1911 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tyleria Mouse OpossumMarmosa (Marmosa) tyleriana Tate, 1931 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Waterhouse's Mouse OpossumMarmosa (Marmosa) waterhousii Tomes, 1860 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| North-eastern Woolly Mouse OpossumMarmosa (Micoureus) demerarae Thomas, 1905 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Little Woolly Mouse OpossumMarmosa (Micoureus) phaea Thomas, 1899 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bare-tailed Woolly Mouse OpossumMarmosa (Micoureus) rutteri Thomas, 1924 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Anderson's Mouse OpossumMarmosa (Stegomarmosa) andersoni Pine, 1972 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tschudi's Slender OpossumMarmosops (Marmosops) caucae (Thomas, 1900) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-bellied Slender OpossumMarmosops (Marmosops) noctivagus (Tschudi, 1844) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brazilian Slender OpossumMarmosops (Marmosops) paulensis (Tate, 1931) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Soini's Slender OpossumMarmosops (Marmosops) soinii Voss, Fleck & Jansa, 2019 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bishop's Slender OpossumMarmosops (Sciophanes) bishopi (Pine, 1981) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cordillera Slender OpossumMarmosops (Sciophanes) chucha Díaz-Nieto & Voss, 2016 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dusky Slender OpossumMarmosops (Sciophanes) fuscatus (Thomas, 1896) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Handley's Slender OpossumMarmosops (Sciophanes) handleyi (Pine, 1981) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Panama Slender OpossumMarmosops (Sciophanes) invictus (Goldman, 1912) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Junin Slender OpossumMarmosops (Sciophanes) juninensis (Tate, 1931) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Delicate Slender OpossumMarmosops (Sciophanes) parvidens (Tate, 1931) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pinheiro's Slender OpossumMarmosops (Sciophanes) pinheiroi (Pine, 1981) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Brown Four-eyed OpossumMetachirus myosuros (Temminck, 1824) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brown Four-eyed OpossumMetachirus nudicaudatus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northern Three-striped OpossumMonodelphis (Microdelphys) americana (P. L. S. Müller, 1776) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gardner's Short-tailed OpossumMonodelphis (Microdelphys) gardneri Solari et al., 2012 | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ihering's Three-striped OpossumMonodelphis (Microdelphys) iheringi (Thomas, 1888) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Long-nosed Short-tailed OpossumMonodelphis (Microdelphys) scalops (Thomas, 1888) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
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Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.