Didelphis Linnaeus, 1758
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em>
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Didelphimorphia
- family
- Didelphidae
- genus
- Didelphis
Name
- Synonyms
- Dasyurotherium Liais, 1872
- Didelphus Lapham, 1853
- Didelphus Radermacher, 1779
- Didelphys Linnaeus, 1758
- Didelphys Schreber, 1778
- Dimerodon Ameghino, 1889
- Gambatherium Liais, 1872
- Leucodidelphis Ihering, 1914
- Leucodidelphys Krumbiegel, 1941
- Thylacotherium Lund, 1839
- Homonyms
- Didelphis Linnaeus, 1758
- Common names
- Common opossums in language.
- Large American Opossum in English
- Large American Opossums in English
- Large American Opossums in English
- large American opossum in English
- large American opossums in English
- large American opossums in English
Bibliographic References
- Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 91 Thirty-five generic names of Mammals placed on the Official List of Generic Names.Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(4), 1 (1926)
- Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. 10th edition. Laurentius Salvius, Holmiae, 824 pp.
- Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em>
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
- Nowak, Ronald M., 1991: null. Walker's Mammals of the World, vol. 1, 5th ed.. 1629.
- SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
- SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB
- Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
- Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142.
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