ADW: Monodelphis: CLASSIFICATION

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Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
        
        Class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes and terrestrial vertebrates)
        
        Tetrapoda (tetrapods)
        
        Amniota (amniotes)
        
        Synapsida (synapsids)
        
        Class Mammalia (mammals)
        
        Subclass Theria (Therian mammals)
        
        Infraclass Metatheria (marsupial mammals)
        
        Order Didelphimorphia (American marsupials)
        
        Family Didelphidae (American opossums and opossums)
        
        Subfamily Didelphinae (American opossums)
        
        Genus Monodelphis (short-tailed opossums)
        
        Species Monodelphis adusta (sepia short-tailed opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis americana (three-striped short-tailed opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis brevicaudata (red-legged short-tailed opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis dimidiata (southern short-tailed opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis domestica (gray short-tailed opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis emiliae (Emilia's short-tailed opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis glirina (Amazonian red-sided opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis iheringi (Ihering's short-tailed opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis kunsi (pygmy short-tailed opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis maraxina (Maraj\\u00f3 short-tailed opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis osgoodi (Osgood's short-tailed opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis palliolata (hooded red-sided opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis rubida (chestnut-striped short-tailed opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis scalops (long-nosed short-tailed opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis sorex (shrewish short-tailed opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis theresa (Theresa's short-tailed opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis umbristriata (red three-striped opossum)
        
        Species Monodelphis unistriata (one-striped short-tailed opossum)

Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order? Please see our brief essay.

To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2012. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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Monodelphis
short-tailed opossums