| Gardner's short-tailed opossum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Genus: | Monodelphis |
| Species: | M. gardneri
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| Binomial name | |
| Monodelphis gardneri Solari, Pacheco, Vivar & Emmons, 2012
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Gardner's short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis gardneri) is a marsupial mammal from South America. It was named in 2012 by Sergio Solari, Víctor Pacheco, Elena Vivar and Louise H. Emmons. They named it after Dr. Alfred L. Gardner who took the first specimen of this species.[1][2]
- ^ Solari, Sergio (2012). "A new species of Monodelphis (Mammalia: Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) from the montane forests of central Peru" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 125 (3): 295–307. doi:10.2988/11-33.1. S2CID 85588030. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-20. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
- ^ "Monodelphis gardneri (Gardner's short-tailed opossum)".