Red-bellied gracile opossum explained

The red-bellied gracile opossum (Cryptonanus ignitus) is an extinct species of opossum that was native to Jujuy Province in northwest Argentina. Its forest habitat has been destroyed, and it was last seen in 1962. It is likely a synonym of the Chacoan gracile opossum.^[1]

References

• Voss . R.S. . Lunde . D.P.. Jansa . S.A. . On the contents of Gracilinanus Gardner & Creighton, 1989, with the description of a previously unrecognized clade of small didelphid marsupials . American Museum Novitates . 3482 . 1–34 . 2005 . 2246/5673 . 10.1206/0003-0082(2005)482[0001:OTCOGG]2.0.CO;2. 84269504 .

Notes and References

1. Teta . Pablo . Díaz-Nieto . Juan F. . How integrative taxonomy can save a species from extinction: The supposedly extinct mouse opossum Cryptonanus ignitus (Diaz, Flores and Barquez, 2000) is a synonym of the living C. chacoensis (Tate, 1931) . Mammalian Biology . May 2019 . 96 . 10.1016/j.mambio.2019.04.004.