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The last land. A history of mammalogy in New Guinea

open access: yesRecords of the Australian Museum
[Excerpt] After Greenland, New Guinea is the second largest island on Earth. It is a region of exceptional biodiversity, as its eastern part alone—the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, ranks twelfth among nations for biodiversity (Williams, 2001 ...
Tim F. Flannery
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Borrelia sp. in naturally infected Didelphis aurita (Wied, 1826) (marsupialia: didelphidae)

open access: yesBrazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2000
Fifty-six opossums (Didelphis aurita) were captured on the campus of Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica county, Rio de Janeiro state, in order to investigate the occurrence of Borrelia sp among them in relation with the study of ...
Isis dos Santos Abel   +4 more
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Order Marsupialia

open access: yes, 1982
James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl (1982): Order Marsupialia. In: James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl (Eds): Mammal Species of the World (1st Edition). Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections: 18-51, ISBN: 0-89327-235-3, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo ...
James H. Honacki   +2 more
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Found alive after 6,000 years: modern records of an ‘extinct’ Papuan marsupial, Dactylonax kambuayai (Marsupialia: Petauridae), with a revision of the systematics and zoogeography of the genus Dactylonax

open access: yesRecords of the Australian Museum
The Pygmy Long-fingered Possum, Dactylonax kambuayai, is the smallest of the striped possums (the petaurid subfamily Dactylopsilinae). It is a ‘Lazarus species’, found living when previously known only from fossils.
Tim F. Flannery   +4 more
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Philander opossum (Marsupialia), a new host record for Sparganum of Lueheella Baer, 1924 (= Spirometra Mueller, 1937)

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1984
Two samples of Sparganum, the larval form of Lueheella Baer, 1924 (= Spirometra Mueller, 1937) were recovered from Philander opossum (L. 1758) captured in Salobra, Mato Grosso State, Brazil, by Dr. Lauro Travassos in may, 1942.
Delir Corrêa Gomes
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Adaptive evolution of the venom-targeted vWF protein in opossums that eat pitvipers. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
The rapid evolution of venom toxin genes is often explained as the result of a biochemical arms race between venomous animals and their prey. However, it is not clear that an arms race analogy is appropriate in this context because there is no published ...
Sharon A Jansa, Robert S Voss
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First record brown four-eyed opossum marsupial in Honduras ( Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve )

open access: yesCuadernos 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   +1 more
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Outlines of a Classification of the Marsupialia.

open access: yesThe Transactions of the Zoological Society of London
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Metazoarios parásitos de Tlacuatzin canescens y Marmosa mexicana (Mammalia: Didelphimorphia) de México Metazoan parasites of Tlacuatzin canescens and Marmosa mexicana (Mammalia: Didelphimorphia) from Mexico

open access: yesRevista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2012
Como parte de un estudio sobre los metazoarios parásitos de mamíferos de México se recolectaron 4 ejemplares de ratones tlacuache: 2 de Tlacuatzin canescens (Allen, 1893) procedentes de Oaxaca y 2 de Marmosa mexicana Merriam, 1897 de Veracruz.
Carmen Guzmán-Cornejo   +4 more
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