Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum
Kingdom
Phylum
Subphylum
Class
Infraclass
Family
Genus
SPECIES
Thylamys karimii
Weight
16-43
0.6-1.5
goz
g oz 
Length
147-235
5.8-9.3
mminch
mm inch 

Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys karimii ) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is endemic to central and northeast Brazil, where it is found in the cerrado and caatinga at elevations from 300 to 1100 m. This opossum is crepuscular and mostly terrestrial; its omnivorous diet includes leaves, insects and small vertebrates. Its head-and-body length is about 95 millimeters, and its tail length is about 72 millimeters. It is very similar to T. pallidor . Its tail may be nonprehensile. The species is named after Iranian epidemiologist Y. Karimi. It is threatened by habitat destruction and fragmentation due to agriculture and ranching.

No

Nocturnal

Ca

Carnivore

In

Insectivores

Ar

Arboreal

To

Torpor

Sc

Scansorial

Te

Terrestrial

So

Solitary

K

starts with

Distribution

Geography

Continents
Countries
Biogeographical realms
Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum habitat map

Climate zones

Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum habitat map
Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum

References

1. Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karimi's_fat-tailed_mouse_opossum
2. Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum on The IUCN Red List site - https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/136653/22172758

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