Peruvian short-tailed opossum

The Peruvian short-tailed opossum is a species of marsupial in the family Didelphidae.It is found in Bolivia and Peru.

Classification

This species was initially described as Peramys peruvianus by Wilfred H. Osgood in 1913. It was later placed in the genus Monodelphis and was included under the species M. adusta by Cabrera. S. Solari, while comparing and revising diagnoses of specimens of the species M. adusta with Monodelphis ronaldi sp. nov., found that Monodelphis adusta peruvianus was differentiable from M. adusta; having a shorter head-body length but longer dorsal hair than M. adusta.