Red-bellied gracile opossum

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Red-bellied gracile opossum

Extinct (1962)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Genus: Cryptonanus
Species:
C. ignitus
Binomial name
Cryptonanus ignitus
(Díaz, Flores & Barquez, 2002)

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.

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