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  Name Long-nosed Shrew Opossum
  Regnum Animal ia
  Phylum Chordata
  Classis Mammal ia
  Subclassis Marsupial ia
  Ordo Paucituberculata
  Familia Caenolestidae
  Genus '''''Rhyncholestes'''''
  Species '''''R raphanurus'''''
  Binomial ''Rhyncholestes raphanurus''
  Binomial Authority Osgood , 1924
  Subdivision Ranks Subspecies


The Long-nosed Shrew Opossum (''Rhyncholestes raphanurus'') is one of six surviving species of Shrew Opossum . It is a small Marsupial that lives in old growth Evergreen Temperate Forests in Chile and Argentina . It is somewhat unique among shrew opossums and, as such, is the only species in its genus, '''''Rhyncholestes'''''.

It is an Endangered Species included in the Red List of Threatened Species .


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