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Short-tailed Woodstar (Myrmia micrura) is one of the smallest hummingbirds in the world, restricted to arid lowlands of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru, with an unusually abbreviated tail.
The pygmy short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis kunsi) is a small opossum described by Ronald Pine in 1975 and found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.
A small Brazilian marsupial (Monodelphis domestica) widely used in biomedical research and the first marsupial to have its genome fully sequenced, accomplished in 2007.
The yellow-sided opossum (Monodelphis dimidiata) is a South American opossum notable as one of the few semelparous mammals.
A small South American marsupial (Monodelphis americana) distinguished by three dark dorsal stripes running along its back, found in forests of Brazil and neighboring countries.
A small Amazonian marsupial (Monodelphis emiliae) described by Thomas in 1912, named for German ornithologist Emilia Snethlage, and found in Brazil and Peru.
