Paraguayan Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum – Thylamys macrurus

Thylamys macrurusOlfers, 1818

Accepted name, Mammal Species of the World 2005

"Based on Azara's (1801:290) ""Micouré à queue longue;"" therefore, the type locality is Tapua. Previously called T. griseus. The name macroura Illiger, 1815, is a nomen nudum."

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.