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| Subspecies: | Unknown |
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| CITES Status: | NOT LISTED |
| IUCN Status: | Least Concern |
| U.S. ESA Status: | NOT LISTED |
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| Jumping Ability: | (Horizontal) |
| Life Span: | in the Wild |
| Life Span: | in Captivity |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Females) |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Males) |
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Habitat:
Didelphis albiventris inhabits open and deciduous forest types from northeastern Brazil to mid latitudes in Argentina, including areas of low and irregular rainfall such as the Caatinga and Monte Desert habitats (Cerqueira 1984, Cerqueira 1985, Martin 2008). This species lives in a variety of habitats, on plains, marshes, grasslands and rain forests at high altitudes and at subtropical latitudes. It tolerates areas next to cultivated lands, and deforested zones. In the Caatinga, it is found in zones of high and low chaparral and thorny vegetation, and in disturbed areas (Mares et al. 1981, Streilen 1982). In Argentina, this species seems to be expanding southward (Martin 2008). It is listed as scansorial and frugivore/omnivore by Paglia et al. (2012). These opossums are commonly infected by Trypanosoma cruzi (Barrett 1979).
Range:
This species occurs from northeastern and central Brazil (Caatinga and Cerrado habitats, enclaves and transition zones) into central and southern Paraguay, east in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and south into Uruguay and Argentina as far south as Río Negro province in the east and the Monte Desert in west (Martin 2008). Didelphis albiventris is also broadly distributed in eastern Bolivia (Cerqueira 1985). Sympatry with D. aurita and D. marsupialis, although rare (Cerqueira 1985), has been registered in areas disturbed by humans and/or in transition zones of different biomes, such as Atlantic Forest and Cerrado, or Amazon Forest and Cerrado (Varejão and Valle 1982, Rocha et al. 2011).
Conservation:
It occurs in a number of protected areas.