Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum (''Thylamys tatei'') is a species of
opossum in the family
Didelphidae,
named after American zoologist
George Henry Hamilton Tate
George Henry Hamilton Tate (April 30, 1894 – December 24, 1953) was a British-born United States, American zoologist and botanist, who worked as a mammalogist for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In his lifetime he wro ...
.
It is found at elevations of 300 to 3,000 m along the coast of central
Peru
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The species has the northernmost range of any member of its genus.
It has white ventral fur and short condylobasal and
zygomatic lengths.
''T. pallidior'' is very similar.
References
Opossums
Mammals of Peru
Mammals described in 1957
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