The Didelphinae are a subfamily of opossums consisting of 15 genera and 123 species.[2][3][4] Specimens have been collected throughout the Americas, but are predominant in South and Central America.[5]
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Some sources call this subfamily the "American opossums",[2][6] while others use that term for the whole family of opossums, Didelphidae.[1] The term may be redundant, though, since all opossums are native to the Americas, while their distant Australian taxonomic relatives, in the suborder Phalangeriformes are referred to as possums in Australia.
- Subfamily Didelphinae
- Genus Chacodelphys
- Genus Chironectes
- Genus Cryptonanus
- Genus Didelphis
- Genus Gracilinanus
- Genus Lestodelphys
- Genus Lutreolina
- Genus Marmosa
- Subgenus Marmosa
- Subgenus Micoureus
- M. alstoni - Alston's woolly mouse opossum
- M. constantiae - white-bellied woolly mouse opossum
- M. demerarae - northeastern woolly mouse opossum
- M. germana - northwestern woolly mouse opossum
- M. jansae - Jansa's woolly mouse opossum
- M. limae - Brazilian woolly mouse opossum
- M. meridae - Merida woolly mouse opossum
- M. paraguayanus - Tate's woolly mouse opossum
- M. parda - Peruvian woolly mouse opossum
- M. perplexa - Anthony's woolly mouse opossum
- M. phaeus - little woolly mouse opossum
- M. rapposa - Bolivian woolly mouse opossum
- M. rutteri - bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum
- Genus Marmosops
- M. bishopi - Bishop's slender opossum
- M. carri - Carr's slender opossum
- M. caucae - Tschudi's slender opossum
- M. chucha - Cordillera slender opossum
- M. cracens - narrow-headed slender opossum
- M. creightoni - Creighton's slender opossum
- M. fuscatus - dusky slender opossum
- M. handleyi - Handley's slender opossum
- M. impavidus - Tschudi's slender opossum
- M. incanus - gray slender opossum
- M. invictus - Panama slender opossum
- M. juninensis - Junin slender opossum
- M. magdalenae - Río Magdalena slender opossum
- M. marina - Silva's slender opossum
- M. neblina - Neblina slender opossum
- M. noctivagus - white-bellied slender opossum
- M. ocellatus - Dorothy's slender opossum
- M. ojastii - Ojasti's slender opossum
- M. pakaraimae - pantepui slender opossum
- M. parvidens - delicate slender opossum
- M. paulensis - Brazilian slender opossum
- M. pinheiroi - Pinheiro's slender opossum
- M. soinii - Soini's slender opossum
- M. woodalli - Woodall's slender opossum
- Genus Metachirus
- M. myosuros - common brown four-eyed opossum
- M. nudicaudatus - Guianan brown four-eyed opossum
- Genus Monodelphis
- Genus Philander
- P. andersoni - Anderson's four-eyed opossum
- P. canus - common four-eyed opossum
- P. deltae - Deltaic four-eyed opossum
- P. frenatus - southeastern four-eyed opossum
- P. mcilhennyi - McIlhenny's four-eyed opossum
- P. melanurus - dark four-eyed opossum
- P. mondolfii - Mondolfi's four-eyed opossum
- P. nigratus - black four-eyed opossum
- P. olrogi - Olrog's four-eyed opossum
- P. opossum - gray four-eyed opossum
- P. pebas - Pebas four-eyed opossum
- P. vossi - northern four-eyed opossum
- Genus Thylamys
- Genus Tlacuatzin
- T. balsasensis - Balsas gray mouse opossum
- T. canescens - Tehuantepec gray mouse opossum
- T. gaumeri - Yucatan gray mouse opossum
- T. insularis - Tres Marías gray mouse opossum
- T. sinaloae - northern gray mouse opossum
- Extinct genera:
- Andinodelphys - Marshall & de Muizon, 1988 (†)
- Coona - Simpson, 1938 (†)
- Incadelphys - Marshall & de Muizon, 1988 (†)
- Itaboraidelphys - Marshall & de Muizon, 1984 (†)
- Marmosopsis - Paula Couto, 1962 (†)
- Mizquedelphys - Marshall & de Muizon, 1988 (†)
- Thylophorops - Reig, 1952 (†)
- Thylatheridium - Reig, 1952 (†)
- Zygolestes - Ameghino, 1898 (†)
Juan A. Martínez-Lanfranco , David Flores , J. Pablo Jayat , and Guillermo D'Elía, A new species of lutrine opossum, genus Lutreolina Thomas (Didelphidae), from
the South American Yungas, Source: Journal of Mammalogy, 95(2):225-240. 2014.
- Les marsupiaux du Tertiaire d'Europe.
- Phylogenetic studies on didelphid marsupials II. Nonmolecular data and new IRBP sequences: Separate and combined analyses of didelphine relationships with denser taxon sampling.
- New didelphine marsupials from La Venta fauna (Miocene) of Colombia, South America.
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