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Marsupiales de la Patagonia - English
URL: http://www.peninsulavaldes.org/patagonia/animals/mammals/marsupiales.htm

Marsupials are found today in North America, South America, New Guinea, Australia, and adjacent islands. Monito del Monte also includes a genus of fossil species, Microbiotherium, which included six known species and lived during Oligocene and Miocene times.

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Dromiciops gliroides (Monito del Monte, Colocolos) - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/dromiciops/d._gliroides$media.htm

Anatomical Images.

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Monito del Monte - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/marsupialia.microbiotheriidae.dromiciops.h

The single living genus and species, Dromiciops australis, occurs only from the vicinity of Concepciуn south to Chiloe Island in south-central Chile and east to slightly beyond the Argentine border in the mountains. This genus often has been placed in the family Didelphidae, but available evidence now indicates that it is distinct from that group and is more appropriately referred to the Microbiotheriidae, an otherwise extinct family of New World marsupials (Kirsch and Calaby 1977).

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