Tlacuatzin

• Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin canescens

  

  This small opossum lives in Mexico. It is nocturnal and eats mainly insects, along with fruit and small animals.

• Yucatán Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin gaumeri

  

  The Yucatán Gray Mouse Opossum is a small opossum of the Yucatán Peninsula. Its original description gives a muted grayish-brown back and pale cream belly and cheeks. Specimens have also been collected in sub-evergreen forest in Quintana Roo.

• Tlacuatzin balsasensis Tlacuatzin balsaensis

  Tlacuatzin balsasensis has a recorded observation in Oaxaca, Mexico. In 2021, one animal was found inside a wasp comb on a branch about 4 m above ground at Yerba Santa. It was not collected; identification was visual and based on its fur and geographic range.

• Tres Marias Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin insularis

  This mouse opossum is known only from Mexico's Islas Marías Archipelago. A camera study on María Madre Island recorded it twice, both times during evening or night hours.

• Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin canescens

  

  This small opossum lives in Mexico. It is nocturnal and eats mainly insects, along with fruit and small animals.

• Yucatán Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin gaumeri

  

  The Yucatán Gray Mouse Opossum is a small opossum of the Yucatán Peninsula. Its original description gives a muted grayish-brown back and pale cream belly and cheeks. Specimens have also been collected in sub-evergreen forest in Quintana Roo.