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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Opossums: Updating Knowledge for Ancient and Successful Mammals

Opossums: An Adaptive Radiation of New World Marsupials. Robert S. Voss and Sharon A. Jansa. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2021. 326 pp., US$ 59.95 (hardcover). ISBN 9,781,421,439,785.

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Flores, D.A. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Opossums: Updating Knowledge for Ancient and Successful Mammals. J Mammal Evol 28, 1015–1016 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-021-09549-6

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