#0341 · 🦊 mammals
White-eared Opossum
🇳🇱 Zuid-Amerikaanse Opossum ·Didelphis albiventris
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Thiago Chagas · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Tim Hirsch · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Reinaldo de Oliveira Elias · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Eduardo Luis Beltrocco · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Américo Nunes · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. © Diego Carús · CC0
- 8. © Diego Carús · CC0
- 9. © Eduardo Luis Beltrocco · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © Paul Ojuara · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The white-eared opossum ( Didelphis albiventris ) is an opossum species found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It is a terrestrial and, sometimes, arboreal animal, and a habitat generalist, living in a wide range of different habitats.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,668 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Wilhelm Lund in 1840 (186 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- White-eared Opossum
- Nederlands
- Zuid-Amerikaanse Opossum
- scientific name
- Didelphis albiventris
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Didelphimorphia
- family
- Didelphidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,668
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1840 by Peter Wilhelm Lund
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Didelphidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 42658, Wikidata Q194685, GBIF 2439930, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.