Black four-eyed opossum

Black four-eyed opossum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Genus: Philander
Species:
P. nigratus
Binomial name
Philander nigratus
(O. Thomas, 1923)
Synonyms[1]
  • Metachirus opossum nigratus O. Thomas, 1923
  • Metachirops opossum nigratus (O. Thomas, 1923)

The black four-eyed opossum (Philander nigratus) is a species of opossum from South America.[2]

  1. ^ Voss, Robert S.; Giarla, Thomas C. (24 June 2020). "A Revision of Philander (Marsupialia: Didelphidae), Part 2: Phylogenetic Relationships and Morphological Diagnosis of P. nigratus Thomas, 1923". American Museum Novitates (3955). doi:10.5531/sd.sp.43.
  2. ^ Thomas, Oldfield (May 1923). "New Subspecies of Metachirus". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 11 (65): 603. doi:10.1080/00222932308632895.