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Encyclopedia > Rhyncholestes
Chilean shrew opossum
Conservation status: Vulnerable
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Metatheria
Superorder: Marsupialia
Order: Paucituberculata
Family: Caenolestidae
Genus: Rhyncholestes
Species: raphanurus
Binomial name
Rhyncholestes raphanurus
Osgood, 1924

The Chilean Shrew Opossum (Rhyncholestes raphanurus) is one of five surviving species of shrew opossum. It is a small marsupial that lives in old growth evergreen temperate forests in Chile and Argentina.


It is an endangered species included in the Red List of Threatened species.


External links

  • ITIS Entry for Rhyncholestes raphanurus (http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=552589)
  • Rhyncholestes raphanurus image (http://www.cricyt.edu.ar/institutos/iadiza/ojeda/marsupiales/Rhyncholestes%20raphanurus.htm)

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