Handley's slender opossum (''Marmosops handleyi'') is a species of
opossum
Opossums () are members of the marsupial order Didelphimorphia () endemic to the Americas. The largest order of marsupials in the Western Hemisphere, it comprises 93 species in 18 genera. Opossums originated in South America and entered Nort ...
in the family
Didelphidae. It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...
to
Colombia.
References
Opossums
Endemic fauna of Colombia
Mammals of Colombia
EDGE species
Mammals described in 1981
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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