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Mountain Pygmy Possum

Australia's only hibernating marsupial (Burramys parvus), known from fossils since 1894 but first found alive in 1966 in...

Tiny Alpine Extant Diprotodontia

8.8 Great

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Honey Possum

Australia's only strictly nectarivorous marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus), native to southwestern Western Australia, with a...

Tiny Western Australia Extant Diprotodontia

8.7 Great

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Southern Marsupial Mole

A blind burrowing marsupial of Australian sandy deserts, one of only two species in order Notoryctemorphia, with vestigi...

Australia Tiny Burrowing Extant

8.6 Great

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Northern Marsupial Mole

A rare blind burrowing marsupial of northwestern Australia, one of only two species in order Notoryctemorphia, distingui...

Australia Tiny Desert Extant

8.4 Great

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Little Pygmy Possum

The world's smallest possum (Cercartetus lepidus), native to southern Australia and Tasmania, with adults weighing as li...

Australia Tiny Extant Diprotodontia

7.6 Good

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Western Pygmy Possum

A small nocturnal marsupial (Cercartetus concinnus) found across southern Australia, feeding on nectar and pollen and en...

Tiny Extant Diprotodontia Nectarivore

6.5 Fair

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Eastern Pygmy Possum

A tiny nocturnal marsupial of southeastern Australia and Tasmania, weighing 15–43 grams and capable of entering torpor t...

Tiny Extant Diprotodontia Southeastern Australia

6.4 Fair

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Gray Short-tailed Opossum

A small Brazilian marsupial (Monodelphis domestica) widely used in biomedical research and the first marsupial to have i...

Tiny South America Extant Didelphimorphia

6.2 Fair

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Chilean Shrew Opossum

A small marsupial (Rhyncholestes raphanurus) of Chilean and Argentine Valdivian rainforests, the sole species in genus R...

Tiny Chile Extant Paucituberculata

6.0 Fair

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Pygmy Ringtail Possum

One of the smallest ringtail possums, endemic to New Guinea's montane cloud forests above 2,000 metres, where it shelter...

Tiny Highland Extant New Guinea

5.9 Mediocre

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Long-tailed Pygmy Possum

A pygmy possum (Cercartetus caudatus) native to New Guinea and northeastern Queensland, distinguished by a prehensile ta...

Tiny Highland Extant New Guinea

5.9 Mediocre

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Incan Shrew Opossum

A small Andean marsupial (Lestoros inca) restricted to the Puna zone of Peru and Bolivia, one of only three genera in fa...

Tiny Highland Ecuador Extant

5.8 Mediocre

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Three-striped Short-tailed Opossum

A small South American marsupial (Monodelphis americana) distinguished by three dark dorsal stripes running along its ba...

Tiny South America Extant Didelphimorphia

5.6 Mediocre

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Common Dunnart

A small insectivorous marsupial (Sminthopsis murina) widespread across southern Australia, one of about 21 dunnart speci...

Australia Tiny Extant Insectivore

5.5 Mediocre

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Black-faced Shrew Opossum

A small caenolestid marsupial of high-altitude Andean forests in Ecuador and Colombia, distinguished by dark facial mark...

Tiny Rare Extant Paucituberculata

5.4 Mediocre

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Silky Shrew Opossum

A small rat-like marsupial (Caenolestes fuliginosus) of the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, one of the few su...

Tiny South America Extant Insectivore

5.2 Mediocre

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Common Mouse Opossum

A small didelphid marsupial (Marmosa murina) widespread across northern South America and Trinidad, often among the most...

Tiny South America Nocturnal Extant

4.8 Poor

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Mouse Bandicoot

One of the smallest bandicoots, endemic to New Guinea's mid-montane forests and rarely observed, with little known of it...

Tiny Forest Floor Extant New Guinea

4.7 Poor

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Gray-bellied Shrew Opossum

A small Andean marsupial (Caenolestes caniventer) of cloud forests in Ecuador and Peru, distinguished by its pale gray u...

Tiny Rare Ecuador Extant

4.6 Poor

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Robinson's Mouse Opossum

A small didelphid marsupial (Marmosa robinsoni) of Central America and northwestern South America, described by Oldfield...

Tiny South America Extant Arboreal

4.5 Poor