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Helminths of three species of opossums (Mammalia, Didelphidae) from Mexico

ZooKeys, 2015
From August 2011 to November 2013, 68 opossums (8 Didelphis sp., 40 Didelphis virginiana, 15 Didelphis marsupialis, and 5 Philander opossum) were collected in 18 localities from 12 Mexican states.
Karla Acosta-Virgen, Jorge López-Caballero, Luis García-Prieto, Rosario Mata-López   +3 more
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Detection of antibodies against Leptospira spp in free-living marsupials caught in the Eastern Amazon

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
INTRODUCTION: Serological surveys are important to assess the health status of wild animals. In this study, antibodies against Leptospira spp, causal agents of leptospirosis, were detected in free-living marsupials in the State of Pará, Brazil. METHODS:
Gleiciane Schupp de Sena Mesquita, Katarine de Souza Rocha, Thamillys Rayssa Marques Monteiro, Marcely Karen Santos do Rosário, Ianny Watuzy Monteiro Baia, Helyanne de Sousa Pereira, Valiria Duarte Cerqueira, Carla Cristina Guimarães de Moraes   +7 more
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Artificial nests as an alternative to studies of arboreal small mammal populations: a five-year study in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil

Zoologia (Curitiba), 2011
Despite the great diversity of Brazilian Atlantic forest small mammals, natural history of most species is unknown due to their cryptic and nocturnal habits, but also due to the inadequacy of methods to capture some species, especially those of arboreal ...
Diogo Loretto, Marcus Vinícius Vieira
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Zoochoric and hydrochoric maritime dispersal of the Opuntia monacantha (Willd.) Haw. (Cactaceae) [PDF]

Biotemas, 2012
Evolutionary adaptations in the morphology and physiology of cactus species have been associated to their mechanisms of dispersal and colonization. The dispersal mechanisms and modes of Opuntia monacantha (Willd.) Haw.
Angelo Martins Fraga, Josy Zarur de Matos, Maurício Eduardo Graipel, Maurício Lenzi, Afonso Inácio Orth   +4 more
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Necrophagous Muscoids that develop in carcasses of Didelphis albiventris Lund, 1841 (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil [PDF]

Biotemas, 2010
Information regarding the similarity of the fauna that colonizes decomposing wildlife is insipient among the different carcass models. Species with different tissues and alimentary diets are hypothesized to be a colonization source of different ...
Ândrio Zafalon da Silva, Vanessa Abelaira dos Anjos, Paulo Bretanha Ribeiro, Rodrigo Ferreira Krüger   +3 more
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Macroscopic study of the digestive tract of Gracilinanus microtarsus (Wagner, 1842) (Mammalia: Didelphidae)

Biotemas, 2014
Gracilinanus microtarsus is a small marsupial species belonging to the Didelphidae family. It has an omnivorous/frugivorous feeding habit and, therefore, it has a great ecological importance, because it is a seed-dispersing species.
Luis Miguel Lobo, Amilton Cesar dos Santos, Ricardo Alexandre Rosa, Carlos Eduardo Ambrosio, Denis Cristiano Briani, Gerlane M. Costa, Ana Flávia Carvalho, Celina Almeida Furlanetto Mançanares   +7 more
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Presencia del zorro de cuatro ojos (Philander opossum) en el cultivo de piña (Ananas comusus)

Agronomía Mesoamericana, 2009
El objetivo de este trabajo fue determinar la presencia del zorro de cuatro ojos (Philander opossum) en áreas de producción de piña orgánica (Ananas comusus), en Sa nta Ce cilia de La Cruz, Guanacaste, Costa Ri ca.
Javier Monge-Meza, Jéssica Linares-Orozco   +1 more
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Didelphidae marsupials (Mammalia, Didelphimorphia) from the Late Pleistocene deposit of the Gruta dos Moura Cave, northern Brazil

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2015
The present study acknowledges the diversity of fossil marsupials from the Gruta dos Moura cave, as well as environmental and climatic aspects during the Quaternary.
Patricia Villa Nova, Leonardo S. Avilla, Édison V. Oliveira   +2 more
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First record brown four-eyed opossum marsupial in Honduras ( Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve )

Cuadernos de investigación UNED, 2015
It is adding a new record of marsupial to Honduras, Metachirus nudicaudatus, and the second record to Nuclear Central America, based in two specimens, male and female.
Julio Enrique Mérida, Gustavo Adolfo Cruz   +1 more
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Mammalia, Didelphimorphia and Rodentia, central Santa Fe Province, Argentine.

Check List, 2010
Three owl pellets samples collected in the localities of Pedro Gómez Cello (= Estación Km. 197;30°02’14” S, 60°18’56” W), Colonia Silva (= Estación Abipones; 30°26’59” S, 60°25’58” W) and Jacinto L.
Teta, P., Pardinas, U. F. J.
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