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Chilean Shrew Opossum

Chilean shrew opossum
:Animalia
:Chordata
Subphylum:Vertebrata
:Mammalia
Subclass:Theria
Infraclass:Metatheria
Superorder:Marsupialia
:Paucituberculata
:Caenolestidae
:Rhyncholestes
:raphanurus
Binomial name
Rhyncholestes raphanurus
Osgood, 1924

The Chilean Shrew Opossum (Rhyncholestes raphanurus) is one of five surviving species of shrew opossum. It is a small marsupial that lives in old growth evergreen temperate forests in Chile and Argentina.

It is an endangered species included in the Red List of Threatened species.

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