Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Water opossum FAMILY - Didelphidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Chironectes minimus argyrodytes REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 8 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 4 - Comments on Status 4* common in some Central Amer. rivers District Reference Stann Creek 5 Toledo 7 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Private land, see comments 7 Bladen Nature Reserve 6 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary 5 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 00' to 88 10' 7 16 00' to 16 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 7 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 6 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 5 General Distribution Comments 7* .4 Km south of Punta Gorda 2* not shown for Belize 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. 1:10-11 3 Wilson, D. E., D. M. Reeder. 1993. Mammal Species of the World, a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Second ed. Smithsonian Inst. p.16 4 Emmons, L. H. 1990. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, a field guide. University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London. p.18 5 Rabinowitz, A.; B. G. Nottingham, Jr. 1989. Mammal species richness and relative abundance of small mammals in a subtropical wet forest of Central America. Mammalia V. 53, No. 2, pp.217-226 6 Iremonger, S., R. Sayre. 1993. A REA, the Bladen Nature Reserve, Toledo District, Belize. DRAFT. Appendix VII. 7 McCarthy, T. J. 1982. Chironectes, Cyclopes, Cabassous and Probably Cebus in Southern Belize. Mammalia 46(3):397-400. 8 Marshall, L. G., 1978. Chironectes minimus. Mammalian Species. No. 109:1-6. The American Society of Mammalogists.
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