Mammalia - Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
Alternative spellings: Didelphiidae, Didelphydae, Didelphyidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Didelphimorphia according to R. M. D. Beck and M. L. Taglioretti 2020
See also Ameghino 1904, Bonaparte 1850, Clemens 1979, Cope 1889, Engesser and Storch 2008, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gadow 1898, Goin 1997, Goin et al. 2007, Gray 1821, Gray 1825, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hooker 1986, Horovitz et al. 2009, Johnson 1966, Korth 1994, Korth and Eaton 2004, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Ladaveze and Muizon 2010, Lambe 1908, Lillegraven and McKenna 1986, Lofgren et al. 2020, Marshall 1982, Martin and Webb 1974, McKenna and Bell 1997, Nowak 1991, Patton et al. 1996, Sherman 1952, Simpson 1927, Simpson 1927, Simpson 1928, Simpson 1929, Simpson 1948, Sloan and Van Valen 1965, Springer et al. 1994, Stirton 1953, Vianey-Liaud et al. 2014, Wilson and Reeder 2005 and Wood and Ormsbee 1954
Sister taxa: Pedimanes, Peradectoidea, Sparassocynidae
Subtaxa: Caluromyinae Caroloameghiana Cladodidelphys Cryptonanus Dasyurina Derorhynchinae Didelphinae Dimerodon Eobrasiliinae Herpetotheriinae Hyladelphinae Marmosinae Marmosops Marmosopsini Peratotherium Sparassocyninae Sparassocynini Thlaeodontinae Thylamyinae
Ecology: scansorial omnivore-carnivore