Didelphis

Large American opossums
	The white-eared opossum, Didelphis albiventris, lives in South America.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Didelphimorphia
Family:	Didelphidae
Subfamily:	Didelphinae
Tribe:	Didelphini
Genus:	Didelphis; Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
	Didelphis marsupialis; Linnaeus, 1758
Species
	Didelphis albiventris; Didelphis aurita; Didelphis imperfecta; Didelphis marsupialis; Didelphis pernigra; Didelphis virginiana; †Didelphis solimoensis (extinct);

Didelphis is a

Didelphimorphia

.

The genus Didelphis is composed of

feign death when cornered. The largest species, the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), is the only marsupial to be found in North America, north of Mexico

The Virginia opossum has opposable toes on their two back feet.

Phylogeny

Cladogram of living large American opossums, the genus Didelphis:^[2]^[3]

D. virginiana

D. albiventris

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Didelphis albiventris	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay
	Didelphis aurita	Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.
	Didelphis imperfecta	Brazil, Suriname, French Guiana and Venezuela.
	Didelphis marsupialis	northeast of Mexico to Bolivia to the central coast of Peru, including Trinidad and Tobago
	Didelphis pernigra	Venezuela to Bolivia
	Didelphis virginiana	Central America and North America from Costa Rica to southern Ontario