Virginie opossum

Virginie opossum[1]
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Infracless:	Marsupialia
Order:	Didelphimorphia
Faimily:	Didelphidae
Subfaimily:	Didelphinae
Genus:	Didelphis
Species:	D. virginiana
Binomial name
Didelphis virginiana (Kerr, 1792)
Virginie opossum range

The Virginie opossum (Didelphis virginiana), commonly kent as the North American opossum, is the anly marsupial foond in North Americae north o Mexico. In the Unitit States it is teepically referred tae simply as a possum. A solitar an nocturnal ainimal aboot the size o a domestic cat, an thus the lairgest opossum, it is a successfu opportunist. It is familiar tae mony North Americans as it is eften seen near touns, rummagin throu garbage cans, or lyin bi the road, a victim o traffic.^[3]

In Mexico it is kent as the tlacuache.