a marsupial, a member of the Didelphia subclass of mammals
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an opossum, a member of the Didelphidae family
Examples of 'didelphid' in a sentence
didelphid
Artificial nests were combined with traditional live traps to study the population ecology of four didelphid marsupial species.
Diogo Loretto, Marcus Vinícius Vieira 2011, 'Artificial nests as an alternative to studies of arboreal small mammal populations:a five-year study in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil', Zoologia (Curitiba)http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702011000300013. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In general, the helminth fauna of each didelphid species showed a stable taxonomic composition with respect to previously sampled sites.
Karla Acosta-Virgen, Jorge López-Caballero, Luis García-Prieto, Rosario Mata-López 2015, 'Helminths of three species of opossums (Mammalia, Didelphidae) from Mexico', ZooKeyshttp://zookeys.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=5565. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)