Complex sentence: The hooded red-sided opossum, "Monodelphis palliolata", is an opossum species from South America, until recently viewed as a subspecies of "M. brevicaudata".
Split into simpler sentences: The hooded red-sided opossum, "Monodelphis palliolata", is a South American opossum species of the family Didelphidae. Until recently, it was viewed as a subspecies of "M. brevicaudata".