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Taxon:
Thylamys elegans
(Waterhouse, 1839)
- elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum
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Natura - nature
..Mundus - physical world
....Naturalia - natural bodies
......Biota
........Domain Eukaryota - eukaryotes
..........Unikonta
............Opisthokonta
..............Holozoa
................Kingdom Animalia - animals
..................Epitheliozoa
....................Eumetazoa - eumetazoans
......................Bilateria - bilaterians
........................Eubilateria
..........................Deuterostomia - deuterostomes
............................Phylum Chordata - chordates
..............................Subphylum Vertebrata - vertebrates
................................Infraphylum Gnathostomata - jawed vertebrates
..................................Superclass Tetrapoda - tetrapods
....................................Reptiliomorpha
......................................Batrachosauria
........................................Amniota
..........................................Synapsida
............................................Therapsida
..............................................Theriodontia
................................................Eutheriodontia
..................................................Cynodontia
....................................................Eucynodontia
......................................................Mammaliamorpha
........................................................Mammaliaformes
..........................................................Holotheria
............................................................Class Mammalia - mammals
..............................................................Theriimorpha
................................................................Theriiformes
..................................................................Trechnotheria
....................................................................Cladotheria
......................................................................Zatheria
........................................................................Subclass Boreosphenida
..........................................................................Theria
............................................................................Infraclass Metatheria
..............................................................................Cohort Marsupialia - marsupials
................................................................................Magnorder Ameridelphia
..................................................................................Order Didelphimorphia
....................................................................................Family Didelphidae - American opossums
......................................................................................Subfamily Didelphinae
........................................................................................Tribe Monodelphini
..........................................................................................Subtribe Monodelphina
............................................................................................Genus Thylamys
..............................................................................................Species Thylamys cinderella
..............................................................................................Species Thylamys karimii
..............................................................................................Species Thylamys macrurus
..............................................................................................Species Thylamys pallidior
..............................................................................................Species Thylamys pusillus
..............................................................................................Species Thylamys sponsorius
..............................................................................................Species Thylamys tatei
..............................................................................................Species Thylamys velutinus
..............................................................................................Species Thylamys venustus
..............................................................................................(Species Thylamys grisea)
..............................................................................................(Species Thylamys lepida)
..............................................................................................(Species Thylamys macrura)
..............................................................................................(Species Thylamys pusilla)
..............................................................................................(Species Thylamys velutina)
..............................................................................................Species Thylamys elegans - elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum
Authorship
Original name
Waterhouse, 1839:95
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Subsequent generic combination
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Types
Type of
Thylamys
(Genus)
Gray, 1843
Combinations
Basionym
Didelphis elegans
Waterhouse, 1839
Different combination
Marmosa elegans
(Waterhouse, 1839)
Synonyms
Subjective synonym
Marmosa janetta
Thomas, 1926
[
D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder (eds.), 1993
]
Subjective synonym
Marmosa tatei
Handley, 1957
[
D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder (eds.), 1993
]
Subjective synonym
Thylamys tatei
(Handley, 1956[1957])
Vernacular Names
English
:
elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum; southern mouse opossum
Number of Subtaxa
2005
A.L. Gardner
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Last updated: 7 Apr 2012