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Taxon: Genus Didelphis Linnaeus, 1758 - large American opossums (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Didelphimorphia - (Family) Didelphidae

Original position

Bestiae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent positions

Didelphini (Tribe) Gray, 1821
Ferae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 71. [assumed]

Original entries

Didelphis dorsigera Linnaeus, 1758
Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758
Didelphis murina Linnaeus, 1758
Didelphis opossum Linnaeus, 1758
Didelphis philander Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Didelphini (Tribe) Gray, 1821 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 72.

Alternative positions

Bestiae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 54. [new position]
Didelphidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: R.M. Nowak, 1991: 19.
Didelphinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821 Ref: A.L. Gardner, 2005: 5.
Ferae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 71. [new position]

Historical positions

Didelphidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: É.V. Oliveira et al., 2021: fig. 6.
Didelphidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: L.M. Carneiro et al., 2018: fig. 5.
Didelphimorphia (Clade) Gill 1872 Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2013: table S4 (p. 100). [rough position]
Didelphinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821 Ref: A.L. Gardner, 2005: 5.
Didelphini (Tribe) Gray, 1821 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 72.
Didelphinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821 Ref: A.L. Gardner, 1993: 16.
Didelphidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 11.
Didelphidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: R.M. Nowak, 1991: 19-21.
Didelphidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1017.
Didelphidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Didelphidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: W. Fiedler et al., 1973: 610.
Ferae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: C. a Linné, 1766: 26, 71. [new position]
Beſtiæ (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 18, 54. [new position]

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 6s;6ss
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 [6s;6ss]
2005 A.L. Gardner [6s;6ss]
1993 A.L. Gardner [4s]
1991 R.M. Nowak 3s
1991 G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill [3s]
1982 A.F. DeBlase 2-3s
1973 W. Fiedler et al. 2s
1758 C. Linnaeus [5s]
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