Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum

Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Didelphimorphia
Family:	Didelphidae
Genus:	Thylamys
Species:	T. tatei
Binomial name
Thylamys tatei Handley, 1957
Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum range

Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys tatei) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae,^[2] named after American zoologist George Henry Hamilton Tate.^[3] It is found at elevations of 300 to 3,000 m along the coast of central Peru.^[1] The species has the northernmost range of any member of its genus.^[1] It has white ventral fur and short condylobasal and zygomatic lengths. T. pallidior is very similar.^[4]

References

1. Solari, S. & Patterson, B. (2008). Thylamys tatei. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
2. Gardner, A.L. (2005). "Order Didelphimorphia". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009-09-28). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 405. ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9. OCLC 270129903.
4. Gardner, Alfred L. (2008). Mammals of South America: Marsupials, xenarthrans, shrews, and bats. University of Chicago Press. pp. 669 (see p. 115). ISBN 0-226-28240-6.