Chironectes minimus - #4372
Water Opossum
USNM 418562
Geographic Distribution
Oaxaca and Tabasco, México, south through Central America to Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Perú, Venezuela, the Guianas, Paraguay, and NE Argentina.
Order/Family
Didelphidae
Genus
Chironectes
Specific Epithet
minimus
Image Location
Venezuela, Yaracuy state, 20 Km NW San Felipe, Minas De Aroa
Image Date
8 December 1967
Photographer
JO Matson