FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Volume 1


Welcome to Volume 1 of the FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay, dealing with the Didelphimorphia or Opossums.
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Photos and pdfs on this page were provided by Nilton Cáceres, Louise Emmons, Thomas Puttker, Paul Smith, Sylvia Qu, Alberto Esquivel, José Luis Cartes, Karina Atkinson and Helen Pheasey (Para La Tierra) Flavia Netto and Philip Myers and may not be used without the prior written permission of FAUNA Paraguay.
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MAMPAR Volume 1 Introduction

MAMPAR Volume 1 Introduction

Caluromys lanatus

Caluromys lanatus

Chironectes minimus

Chironectes minimus

Didelphis albiventris

Didelphis albiventris

Didelphis aurita

Didelphis aurita

Lutreolina crassicaudata

Lutreolina crassicaudata

Philander frenatus

Philander frenatus

Metachirus nudicaudatus

Metachirus nudicaudatus

Gracilinanus agilis

Gracilinanus agilis

Gracilinanus microtarsus

Gracilinanus microtarsus

Cryptonanus chacoensis

Cryptonanus chacoensis

Thylamys macrurus

Thylamys macrurus

Thylamys pusillus

Thylamys pusillus

Marmosa constantiae

Marmosa constantiae

Marmosa paraguayana

Marmosa paraguayana

Monodelphis domestica

Monodelphis domestica

Monodelphis sorex

Monodelphis sorex

Monodelphis kunsi

Monodelphis kunsi

Smith P 2008 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 16 Brown-eared Woolly Opossum Caluromys lanatus
Pdf file 378kb

LAST UPDATED 1 April 2012

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Smith P 2007 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 4 Water Opossum Chironectes minimus
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LAST UPDATED 9 January 2012

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Smith P 2007 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 1 White-eared Opossum Didelphis albiventris
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Smith P 2009 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 33 Southern Black-eared Opossum Didelphis aurita
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Smith P 2008 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 17 Thick-tailed Opossum Lutreolina crassicaudata
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Smith P 2009 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 9 Southeastern Foure-eyed Opossum Philander frenatus
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Smith P 2008 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 19 Brown Four-eyed Opossum Metachirus nudicaudatus
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Smith P 2009 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 35 Agile Gracile Opossum Gracilinanus agilis
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Smith P 2009 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 34 Chaco Mouse Opossum Cryptonanus chacoensis
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Smith P 2009 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 31 Long-tailed Fat-tailed Opossum Thylamys macrurus
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Smith P 2009 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 32 Chaco Fat-tailed  Opossum Thylamys pusillus
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Smith P 2011 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 41 Pale-bellied Woolly Mouse Opossum Marmosa constantiae
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Smith P 2009 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 30 Long-furred Woolly Mouse Opossum Marmosa paraguayana
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Smith P 2008 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 10 Grey Short-tailed Opossum Monodelphis domestica
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LAST UPDATED 17 February 2013

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Smith P 2008 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 26 Red-sided Short-tailed Opossum Monodelphis sorex
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Smith P 2008 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 18 Pygmy Short-tailed Opossum Monodelphis kunsi
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Smith P 2010 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Introductory Chapters Number 1a
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Included in this file is a complete biography of all the references used in the compilation of this volume.
LAST UPDATED 1 April 2012
Smith P 2012 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay Number 42 Brazilian Gracile Opossum Gracilinanus agilis
Pdf file 630kb

LAST UPDATED 17 MAY 2012

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author would personally like to thank everybody who contributed directly or indirectly to the  production of this volume. Particular thanks to Professor Nilton Cáceres for reviewing species accounts, helping to source photographs and for providing me with a copy of his book Os Marsupiais do Brasil which proved to be an important reference. The late Juan Carlos Chébez provided me with important references for Argentina and Donald W Duszynski very kindly collated hard to find references on Coccidian parasites for me. A host of others contributed indirectly by making their papers available online through their websites, not least Professor Rui Cerqueira, Dr Marcus Vieira, Dr Diego Astúa de Morães and Professor Cáceres, all of whom are involved in groundbreaking studies of the  ecology of this oft-neglected group. Other colleagues who took the time to send me important pdfs were Simone Sommer, Thomas Puttker, Enrique González and Marcelo Passamani. Thanks also to Dr Robert Owen and Professor Julio Contreras for always being available to help and for making their respective extensive libraries available to me.
For the taxonomic sections of this volume Dr Alfred L. Gardner deserves special mention as the editor of Mammals of South America Vol 1 (2007) as do the various professionals who contributed to its production (which reads like a who´s who of the greatest mammalogists of our age!!) - for the sections relevant to this volume these are in alphabetical order Rui Cerqueira, C. Ken Creighton, Marian Dagosto, Alfred L Gardner, Charles O. Handley Jr, James L. Patton, Ronald H. Pine, Maraia Nazareth F. da Silva, Barabara R Stein and Christopher J Tribe. This was an indispensable reference upon which I have drawn heavily and without which this volume would be considerably poorer.
Thanks to all who have contributed photographs, data and material to FAUNA Paraguay www.faunaparaguay.com, especially those who have contributed directly to this volume: all the staff at the Para La Tierra biological station, Sylvia Qu, Philip Myers, Alberto Esquivel, José Luis Cartes, Karina Atkinson, Ulf Drechsel and Flavia Netto. Additional photographs not taken in Paraguay were provided by Nilton Cáceres, Mauricio Graipel, Thomas Puttker and Louise Emmons. Thanks also to those who have accompanied me in the field during the collection of data used in this volume, especially Attila Bankovics, Hugo del Castillo, Lars Hansen, Hans Hostettler, Flavia Netto and Bryan Wainwright. Finally my thanks to those others who I have inadvertently, but almost certainly, forgotten to mention!
The FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay should be seen as a work in progress and will be updated as and when new material is published or becomes available. If you would like to contribute to future editions or have any comments, queries or corrections related to this volume, you can email the author at:
faunaparaguay@yahoo.com.ar.