large American opossum
didelphis latin

The six species in the genus Didelphis, commonly known as large American opossums, are members of the Didelphimorphia order.

They are members the genus Didelphis, which contains the largest American opossums, and the order Didelphinmorphia, to which all western hemisphere opossums belong.

Predators of the Barn Owl include large American opossums (Didelphis), the Common Raccoon (Procyon lotor), and similar carnivorous mammals, as well as large raptors such as hawks, eagles, and other owls.

Opossums of the Didelphis genus likely can eat cane toads with impunity.

The first species described, the tiger quoll, was originally placed in the American opossum genus Didelphis.

Didelphis (mentioned)

The six species in the genus Didelphis, commonly known as large American opossums, are members of the Didelphimorphia order.

The Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana), sometimes called a possum, is a marsupial.

The Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) has been found to have the most resistance towards snake venom.

Didelphis (opossums)

Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana)

Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana): a nocturnal marsupial that rests in trees during the day and searches for food on the ground at night.

The largest opossum is the Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) from North America.

White-eared Opossum (Didelphis albiventris)

Class III: Uterus didelphys, also uterus didelphis (double uterus).

This rules out Limulus, Peripatus, Latimeria, Sphenodon, Didelphis, the platypus, and many others.

The Guianan White-eared Opossum, Didelphis imperfecta, is an opossum species from South America.

They are members the genus Didelphis, which contains the largest American opossums, and the order Didelphinmorphia, to which all western hemisphere opossums belong.

From its foot structure it is thought that Sinodelphys was a tree-dweller, like its non-marsupial contemporary Eomaia and modern opossums such as Didelphis.

The genus is closely related to Didelphis but the species of Philander are smaller than those of Didelphis.

For some time it was considered a member of the opossum genus Didelphis, but this ended in 1844 when Coenraad Jacob Temminck erected the genus Phascogale.

This quoll was first described in 1792 by Robert Kerr, the Scottish writer and naturalist, who placed it in the genus Didelphis, which includes several species of American opossum.

The 'Virginia Opossum' ('Didelphis virginiana'), commonly known as the 'North American Opossum', is the only marsupial found in North America north of the Rio Grande River.

Uterus didelphys (sometimes also uterus didelphis) represents a uterine malformation where the uterus is present as a paired organ as the embryogenetic fusion of the mullerian ducts failed to occur.

Recent genetic and behavioral evidence suggests the South American marsupial Didelphis albiventris is dichromatic, with only two classes of cone opsins having been found within the genus Didelphis.

Harris originally placed the thylacine in the genus Didelphis, which had been created by Linnaeus for the American opossums, describing it as Didelphis cynocephala, the "dog-headed opossum".

Although its closest relative is the hedgehog, full grown specimens more closely resemble large rats, or the North American Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginianis), with which it shares similar habits and ecological niches (an example of parallel evolution).

Of these, the Common Opossum, Didelphis marsupialis, which was originally introduced to Grenada by Amerindians, is a potential predator of all life stages of the Grenada Dove, and other manicou species (Marmosa spp.)