Genus Glironia
The "Bushy Tailed Opossum"
Glironia Pictures
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Glironia venusta
(Thomas, 1912)
The Smithsonian lists two synonyms for "Glironia venusta" - aequatorialis and criniger.
Names
- English: Bushy Tailed Opossum
- English: Brush Tailed Opossum
- English: Equatorial Bushy-tailed opossum
- English: Squirrel-Tailed Opossum
- Czech: vačice štětkoocasá
- Finnish: sulkahäntäopossumi
- French: Opossum à queue touffue
- German: Buschschwanzbeutelratten
- Russian: ПУШИСТОХВОСТЫЙ ОПОССУМ
- Spanish: Glironia
- Spanish: Glironia Grisácea
- Spanish: Raposa de Cola Peluda
- Portuguese: Cuíca
Etymology
- "Glironia" comes from Latin "Glir" meaning "dormouse" which this opossum resembles.
- "Venusta" is Latin for "elegant" or "charming".
These opossums are found in the Upper Amazon regions of Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.
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