page_title: List of mammals of Paraguay
section_title: Order: Didelphimorphia (common opossums)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of Paraguay / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Metatheria / Order: Didelphimorphia (common opossums)
caption_attribution_description: Português: Espécie de marsupial pequena e arborícola (Marmosa paraguayana), encontrada no sudeste e partes do sul do Brasil.English: Species of small and arboreal marsupial (Marmosa paraguayana), found in the southeast and parts of southern Brazil.
context_page_description: This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Paraguay. There are 151 mammal species in Paraguay, of which two are endangered, seven are vulnerable, and twelve are near threatened.
  The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
  Some species were assessed using an earlier set of criteria. Species assessed using this system have the following instead of near threatened and least concern categories:
context_section_description: Didelphimorphia is the order of common opossums of the Western Hemisphere. Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene. They are small to medium-sized marsupials, about the size of a large house cat, with a long snout and prehensile tail.
  Family: Didelphidae (American opossums)
  Subfamily: Caluromyinae
  Genus: Caluromys
  Brown-eared woolly opossum, Caluromys lanatus LR/nt
  Subfamily: Didelphinae
  Genus: Chironectes
  Water opossum, Chironectes minimus LR/nt
  Genus: Didelphis
  White-eared opossum, Didelphis albiventris LR/lc
  Big-eared opossum, Didelphis aurita LR/lc
  Common opossum, Didelphis marsupialis LR/lc
  Genus: Gracilinanus
  Agile gracile opossum, Gracilinanus agilis LR/nt
  Genus: Lutreolina
  Lutrine opossum, Lutreolina crassicaudata LR/lc
  Genus: Marmosa
  Woolly mouse opossum, Marmosa demerarae LR/lc
  Tate's woolly mouse opossum, Marmosa paraguayana LC
  Genus: Metachirus
  Brown four-eyed opossum, Metachirus nudicaudatus LR/lc
  Genus: Monodelphis
  Gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica LR/lc
  Southern red-sided opossum, Monodelphis sorex VU
  Genus: Philander
  Gray four-eyed opossum, Philander opossum LR/lc
  Genus: Thylamys
  Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum, Thylamys macrurus LR/nt
  Common fat-tailed mouse opossum, Thylamys pusillus LR/lc
caption: Tate's woolly mouse opossum
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