Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Wooly opossum

  FAMILY -               Didelphidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Caluromys derbianus fervidus

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 8

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Common: high density, likely to be seen in many places     4
  

   - Comments on Status

  4* formerly hunted for fur trade, but skins no longer in demand

  District                                                     Reference

  Cayo                                                                 2
  Corozal                                                              2
  Orange Walk                                                          2
  Stann Creek                                                          2
  Toledo                                                               2
  Belize                                                               2
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Government land                       Collected as voucher October          6
  Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve    Sighting             Dry season       5
  

  Hydrologic Association         Reference

  Macal River                          5
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15'           6
  16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00'           5
  

  Holdridge Life Zone                   Reference

  Subtropical moist                            6
  

  General Distribution Comments

  2* Specimen taken at Kate's Lagoon
  5* Francelia Camp
  6* ROM Baking Pot

  References

  1  McCarthy, T. J. 1993. Checklist: Mammals of Belize. BAS Newsletter
     25 (2-3).
  
  2  Hall, E. R. 1981. Mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley &
     Sons. New York. 1:11-12
  
  3  Wilson, D. E., D. M. Reeder. 1993.  Mammal Species of the World, a
     Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Second ed. Smithsonian Inst. p.15
  
  4  Emmons, L. H. 1990.  Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, a field guide.
     University of Chicago Press.  Chicago and London. p.13
  
  5  Clark, W. C. 1992. Mammal Surveys Along the Macal River in Areas to be
     Affected by the Belize Electricity Board's Proposed Hydroelectric
     Project. pp.3-16. Draft report in Macal River Hydroelectric Development
     Environmental Impact Assessment Rubber Camp and Chalillo Schemes
     Pre-feasibility Study - Draft Environmental Appendix.  Volume II of III.
  
  6  ROM. 1995. Collections data from mammal department, Royal Ontario
     Museum.
  
  7  Hall, E. R., W.W. Dalquest. 1963. The mammals of Veracruz. Univ. Kansas.
     Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 14:165-362.
  
  8  Bucher, J. E., R. S. Hoffmann. 1980. Caluromys derbianus. Mammalian
     Species No.140:1-4. The American Society of Mammalogists.