The Hooded Red-sided Opossum is a small marsupial of forests in northern Venezuela and northeastern Colombia. Its short gray coat has reddish sides and hind legs.
It has short gray hair with reddish coloring on the sides and hind legs. The account reports larger head-and-body length in males than females.
It lives mainly in forests. The species account says its diet is unknown, so diet information for a close relative is not presented as established for this species.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.