Red-bellied gracile opossum

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Red-bellied gracile opossum

Extinct (1962)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Genus: Cryptonanus
Species:
C. ignitus
Binomial name
Cryptonanus ignitus
(Díaz, Flores & Barquez, 2002)

The red-bellied gracile opossum (Cryptonanus ignitus) is an extinct species of opossum that was native to Jujuy Province in northwest Argentina. Its forest habitat has been destroyed, and it was last seen in 1962. It is likely a synonym of the Chacoan gracile opossum.[2]

References

  1. ^ Flores, D. (2016). "Cryptonanus ignitus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T41320A22177809. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T41320A22177809.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ Teta, Pablo; Díaz-Nieto, Juan F. (May 2019). "How integrative taxonomy can save a species from extinction: The supposedly extinct mouse opossum Cryptonanus ignitus (Diaz, Flores and Barquez, 2000) is a synonym of the living C. chacoensis (Tate, 1931)". Mammalian Biology. 96. doi:10.1016/j.mambio.2019.04.004. hdl:10784/26746.