Marmosa chachapoya
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| Marmosa chachapoya | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Genus: | Marmosa |
| Species: | M. chachapoya |
| Binomial name | |
| Marmosa chachapoya Pavan, Abreu, Sánchez-Vendizú and Voss, 2025 | |
Marmosa chachapoya is a species of mouse opossums (Marmosa) that occurs in the northern Peruvian Andes.
The holotype of Marmosa chachapoya, a young but fully grown male, has a head-body length of 10.7 centimeters, a 16 cm long tail, and weighs 21 grams. The hindfoot is 2 cm long, and the height of the ears is 1.8 cm. The snout is strikingly narrow. The dorsal fur is orange-brown and slightly lighter than the hairs on the top of the head. It has no dark stripe down the middle of the back, unlike some related species. The dark mask around the eyes does not extend to the base of the ears. On the ventral side, the fur is cream-colored. The upper side of the front and hind paws is densely covered with light yellow hairs. The scrotum is dark blue. The tail is covered with long hairs, and the skin underneath is uniformly brown and covered with scales, mostly arranged in spiral rows, less often in ring-shaped rows.[1]