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micoureus_a

woolly mouse opposum; former Micoureus demerarae. Recent molecular analyses revealed more than one species in eastern Brazil. See: Costa, L. P. 2003. The historical bridge between the Amazon and the Atlantic forest of Brazil: a study of molecular phylogeography with small mammals. J. Biogeography 30: 71-86.

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Identification: Micoureus (woolly mouse opossums)
Location: Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date Taken: November, 2002
Contributors: Pablo Gonçalves, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
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Subjects: Subject Live Animal; Type Photo; Life Stages and Gender adult/sexually mature; Anatomy body parts mouth (buccal cavity); Anatomy body parts teeth; Anatomy body parts fore feet; Anatomy coloration/patterning cryptic

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