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Chironectes variegatus
Yapock Ya"pock (?; 277), n. [Probably from the river Oyapok, between French Guiana and Brazil.] (Zo["o]l.) A South American aquatic opossum (Chironectes variegatus) found in Guiana and Brazil. Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum. [Written also yapack.]
Chironectes variegatus
Note: Several related species are found in South America. The water opossum of Brazil (Chironectes variegatus), which has the hind feet, webbed, is provided with a marsupial pouch and with cheek pouches. It is called also yapock. Opossum mouse. (Zo["o]l.) See Flying mouse, under Flying. Opossum shrimp (Zo["o]l.), any schizopod crustacean of the genus Mysis and allied genera. See Schizopoda.

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- needed] Chironectes minimus argyrodytes ****ey, 1928 - southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and northern Nicaragua Chironectes minimus...
- opossum (Metachirus nudicaudatus) Tribe Didelphini Genus Chironectes Water opossum or yapok (Chironectes minimus) Genus Lutreolina †Lutreolina biforata (Ameghino...
- Antennarius nitidus Bennett, 1827 Chironectes nesogallicus Valenciennes, 1837 Antennarius nesogallicus (Valenciennes, 1837) Chironectes pictus Valenciennes, 1837...
- Câamara EC, Câmara BO (2004). "Morphology of the Male Genital system of Chironectes minimus and Comparison to other didelphid marsupials". Journal of Mammalogy...
- only other marsupial species to have this feature is the water opossum, Chironectes minimus, which is found in Mexico and Central and South America. "Foot...
- Nogueira, José Carlos, et al. "Morphology of the male genital system of Chironectes minimus and comparison to other didelphid marsupials." Journal of mammalogy...
- habitat of sponges. The longlure frogfish was first formally described as Chironectes multiocellatus in 1837 by the French zoologist Achille Valenciennes with...
- by Pierre André Latreille, also in 1804. The next available name was Chironectes unipennis which was coined by Georges Cuvier in 1817. In 1878 the American...
- bone". Cuvier placed the genera Lophius (incl. Lophius piscatorius), Chironectes/Antennarius (incl. various subspecies of Lophius histrio), Malthe (incl...
- Shaw, 1794 Lophius chironectes Latreille, 1804 Antennarius chironectes (Latreille, 1804) Chironectes verus Cloquet, 1817 Chironectes leprosus Eydoux &...