Chironectes Illiger, 1811

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

GENUS

Published in

Prodr. Syst. Mammal. Avium. p.76

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Chordata

class

Mammalia

order

Didelphimorphia

family

Didelphidae

genus

Chironectes

Name

Synonyms

Cheironectes Gray, 1827

Cheironectes Illiger, 1811

Cheronectis Fleming, 1822

Memina Fischer de Waldheim, 1814

Memmina Rafinesque, 1815

Homonyms

Chironectes Illiger, 1811

Chironectes Rafinesque, 1814

Chironectes Cuvier, 1817

Common names

Water Opossum in English

Water opossums in language.

water opossum in English

water opossum in English

water opossum in English

yapok in language.

yapok in language.

Bibliographic References

1. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
2. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
3. Nowak, Ronald M., 1991: null. Walker's Mammals of the World, vol. 1, 5th ed.. 1629.
4. Prod.
5. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
6. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB
7. Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
8. Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
9. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
10. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142.
11. as per family