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They also have hairless ears and a long, flat nose. Opossums have 50 teeth, more than any other North American land mammal, [14] and opposable, clawless thumbs on their rear limbs. Opossums have 13 nipples, arranged in a circle of 12 with one in the middle. [15] [16] The dental formula of an opossum is 5.1.3.4 4.1.3.4. [17]
The word opossum is derived from the Powhatan language and was first recorded between 1607 and 1611 by John Smith (as opassom) and William Strachey (as aposoum). [5] Possum was first recorded in 1613.
Thylamys is a genus of opossums in the family Didelphidae. The premaxillae are rounded rather than pointed. The females lack a pouch. The females' nipples are arranged in two symmetrical rows on the abdomen. [2] All species but T. macrurus store fat in their tails., [3] although this is not necessarily true for all species in the genus. [4]
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The bushy-tailed opossum (Glironia venusta) is an opossum from South America. ... Five nipples can be seen on the abdomen; it lacks a marsupium. [5] The tail, 19.5 to ...
This shrew opossum lacks a marsupium [9] (young are attached to the nipples) and has seven nipples, unlike the four typical of other caenolestids. [5] The tail helps in balancing the body during locomotion; the relatively shorter tail could imply lesser agility in the long-nosed caenolestid in comparison to other caenolestids.
The common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis), also called the southern or black-eared opossum [2] or gambá, and sometimes called a possum, is a marsupial species living from the northeast of Mexico to Bolivia (reaching the coast of the South Pacific Ocean to the central coast of Peru), including Trinidad and Tobago and the Windwards in the Caribbean, [2] where it is called manicou. [3]
Jennifer Aniston reveals why her nipples made so many appearances on Friends, after fans noticed them poking through her top a lot.