Didelphinae
| Didelphinae | |
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| Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) in Ohio. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Subfamily: |
Didelphinae Gray, 1821 |
| Genera | |
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Chacodelphys |
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Chacodelphys
Chironectes
Cryptonanus
Didelphis
Gracilinanus
Hyladelphys
Lestodelphys
Lutreolina
Marmosa
Marmosops
Metachirus
Monodelphis
Philander
Thylamys
Tlacuatzin
The Didelphinae are a subfamily of opossums consisting of 15 genera and 98 species, one of them extinct. Specimens have been collected throughout the Americas, but are predominant in South and Central America.
Some sources call this subfamily the "American opossums", while others use that term for the whole family of opossums, Didelphidae. The term may be redundant, though, since all opossums are native to the Americas, while their distant Australian taxonomic relatives, in the suborder Phalangeriformes are referred to as possums in Australia.
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