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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

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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