Opossum (word algonquin wapathemwa ) or sarigue is a name given to the Mammifère S marsupial American of didelphidés ( Didelphidae ). Largest is the Opossum of Virginia ( Didelphis virginiana ), which tends to be distributed in all United States. The surface of distribution of didelphidés extends from the southern half of the the United States in north of the Argentine. The opossum is present also in New Zealand where it was introduced by the first colonists, it is the cause of devastation there among the indigenous species.
The majority of the opossums are Arboricole S; the prehensile feet are equipped with robust nails. The opossum has night manners; it is a predator of reptiles, birds and small mammals. The females put low after 8 to 14 days of gestation; the small one lives then during more than one hundred days in the Marsupium of his/her mother.
Classification
They are divided into two subfamilies: the Caluromyinae and the Didelphinae.
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Subfamily Caluromyinae
- kind Caluromys
- Caluromys derbianus mamiferos/Fot caluromys.jpg photograph
- Caluromys lanatus photo
- Caluromys philander photo
- kind Caluromysiops
- Caluromysiops irrupta
- kind Glironia
- Glironia venusta
- Subfamily Didelphinae
- kind Chironectes
- Chironectes minimus - chironecte
- kind Didelphis
- Didelphis albiventris albiventris.html photograph
- Didelphis aurita
- Didelphis marsupialis
- Didelphis virginiana - Opossum of Virginia Photographs/pages/Opossum 2.htm photograph
- kind Gracilinanus
- Gracilinanus aceramarcae
- Gracilinanus agilis
- Gracilinanus dryas
- Gracilinanus emiliae
- Gracilinanus marica
- Gracilinanus microtarsus
- kind Lestodelphys
- Lestodelphys halli
- kind Lutreolina
- Lutreolina crassicaudata
- kind Marmosa
- Marmosa andersoni
- Marmosa canescens
- Marmosa lepida
- Marmosa mexicana
- Marmosa murina photo
- Marmosa robinsoni
- Marmosa will rubra
- Marmosa tyleriana
- Marmosa xerophila
- kind Marmosops
- Marmosops CRA taxable quota
- Marmosops dorothea
- Marmosops fuscatus
- Marmosops handleyi
- Marmosops impavidus
- Marmosops incanus photo
- Marmosops invictus
- Marmosops noctivagus
- Marmosops parvidens
- kind Metachirus
- Metachirus nudicaudatus
- kind Micoureus
- Micoureus alstoni
- Micoureus constantiae constantiae.htm photograph
- Micoureus demerarae photo
- Micoureus Regina
- kind Monodelphis
- Monodelphis adusta
- Monodelphis americana
- Monodelphis brevicaudata
- Monodelphis dimidiata
- Monodelphis domestica 1.htm photograph
- Monodelphis emiliae
- Monodelphis iheringi
- Monodelphis kunsi
- Monodelphis maraxina
- Monodelphis osgoodi
- Monodelphis rubida
- Monodelphis scalops
- Monodelphis sorex
- Monodelphis theresa
- Monodelphis unistriata
- kind Philander
- Philander andersoni
- Philander opossum - four eyes photo
- kind Thylamys
- Thylamys elegans photo
- Thylamys will macrura
- Thylamys pallidior
- Thylamys pusilla
- Thylamys velutinus
Remarks
In the beginning the denomination sarigue indicated the whole of the Didelphidé S, that of opossum being reserved for Didelphis marsupialis.It seems that the famous stereotype (with clean and with appeared!) sarigue carrying its small rolled up on its tail relates to only the group of the Philander S.
The opossum in New Zealand
The opossum is regarded in New Zealand as a very harmful animal and its hunting is a national sport: any New Zealander who respects himself must kill the most possible opossums.The opossums are the predatory frightening ones for New Zealand native fauna and the flora. They eat eggs of the birds and when they mark their territory, they often wound with dead the young native trees with very slow growth.
Cuddly toys, “scratched possum”, are to be sold in New Zealand (since the Années 1990), representing a opossum flattened with a tire track.
External bonds
- Information of trapping of opossum and photograph gallery of Orlando, FL (in)
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