Dark Four-eyed Opossum

Dark Four-eyed OpossumThis opossum occurs in western Ecuador and nearby parts of northwestern South America. An older, broader classification described coastal populations as dark-coated, and a camera-trap study in one part of Ecuador suggested an association with permanent water.What does it look like?A 2000 account of the broad species described the melanurus population from coastal Colombia and northern Ecuador as having dark gray to nearly black upperparts and a dark tail that sometimes had a pale tip.How does it live?This opossum occurs in western Ecuador and nearby parts of northwestern South America. An older, broader classification described coastal populations as dark-coated, and a camera-trap study in one part of Ecuador suggested an association with permanent water.Camera records from the 2023 Cordillera Chongón Colonche survey led the authors to suggest that the species may favor areas with permanent water. This is a local inference from western Ecuador.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.