short-tailed opossum
monodelphis latin

Gray short-tailed opossums are relatively small animals, with a superficial resemblance to voles.

The gray short-tailed opossum is found generally south of the Amazon River, in southern, central, and western Brazil.

Gray short-tailed opossums are sexually mature at five to six months of age, and live for up to forty nine months in captivity.

Gray short-tailed opossums eat rodents, frogs, reptiles, and invertebrates, as well as some fruit.

Monodelphis is a genus of marsupials in the family Didelphidae, commonly referred to as short-tailed opossums.

The tammar genome appears to have more rearrangements than those of both the human and the gray short-tailed opossum, another sequenced marsupial.

Monodelphis domestica (gray short-tailed opossum)

Gray Short-tailed Opossum (Monodelphis domestica)

The Marajó short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis maraxina) is an opossum species from South America.

Sepia Short-tailed Opossum (Monodelphis adusta)

Pygmy Short-tailed Opossum (Monodelphis kunsi)

Marajó Short-tailed Opossum (Monodelphis maraxina)

Osgood's Short-tailed Opossum (Monodelphis osgoodi)

Long-nosed Short-tailed Opossum (Monodelphis scalops)

The gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica) is a small South American member of the Didelphidae family of opossums.

Osgood's Short-tailed Opossum (Monodelphis osgoodi) is a species of opossum in the Didelphidae family.

Emilia's Short-tailed Opossum (Monodelphis emiliae)

Handley's Short-tailed Opossum (Monodelphis handleyi)

Exotic pets such as Sugar Gliders, large snakes, hedgehogs, Brazilian short-tailed opossums, and large parrots are available at some pet shops.

The biodynamics of arboreal locomotion: the effects of substrate diameter on locomotor kinetics in the gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica).

The gray short-tailed opossum possesses several features that make in ideal research model, particularly in studies of marsupials, as well as the immunological and developmental research on mammalian systems.

It is also called the Shrewish Short-tailed Opossum, or Dwarf Short-tailed Opossum.

The gray short-tailed opossum ( Monodelphis domestica ), a small (60-150 g) marsupial native to scrub forests of southeastern Brazil, provides new opportunities for study of olfactory communication and pheromonal activation of reproduction.

Developing the monodelphis domestica as an animal model for various diseases.

The Chestnut-striped Opossum, Monodelphis rubida, is an opossum species from South America.

Gray Short-tailed Opossum (Monodelphis domestica)

He supported the resolution of the mouse, dog and monodelphis genomes and the early ENCODE project.

The gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica) is a small South American member of the Didelphidae family of opossums.

New species of Monodelphis (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) from Peru, with notes on M. adusta (Thomas, 1897).

The biodynamics of arboreal locomotion: the effects of substrate diameter on locomotor kinetics in the gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica).

Una nueva especie del género Monodelphis (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) de la Sierra de Lema, Venezuela.

The gray short-tailed opossum ( Monodelphis domestica ), a small (60-150 g) marsupial native to scrub forests of southeastern Brazil, provides new opportunities for study of olfactory communication and pheromonal activation of reproduction.

It differs from the other "marmosine" genera (Marmosa, Monodelphis, Thylamys, Tlacuatzin, Gracilinanus, Marmosops, Lestodelphys) in having a long third manual digit, no distinctly tricolored pelage, a long fourth pedal digit, and a tail shorter than head-body.

Ivanco, T. L.; Pellis, S. M., Whishaw, I. Q. Skilled movements in prey catching and in reaching by rats (Rattus norvegicus ) and opossums (Monodelphis domestica ): Relations to anatomical differences in motor systems.