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References

• Austad (1993) Retarded senescence in an insular population of Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana). J Zool, 229:695-708.
• Baker, R.H. 1983. Michigan Mammals. Michigan State University Press. United States of America.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes. 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79
• Corbet, G.B. & J.E. Hill. 1991. A world list of mammalian species. Oxford University, London, England. 243 p..
• Gardner, A.L. 1983. Didelphis marsupialis. Pp. 468-469. In: D.H. Janzen (ed.). Costa Rican Natural History. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago, U.S.A.
• Goodwin, G.C. 1946. Mammals of Costa Rica. Bulletin of The American Museum of Natural History 87(5): 271-473
• Hartman, C. 1952. Possums. Austin: University of Texas Press.
• McManus, J.J. (2 May 1974) "Didelphis virginiana." Mammalian Species. The American Society of Mammalogists, 40.
• Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 16, 2011 at http://animaldiversity.org. http://www.animaldiversity.org
• Nowak, R.M. 1991. Walker's Mammals of the World. Fifth Edition. The John Hopkins University. Baltimore. 1362 p.
• Nowak, Ronald M. 1991. Walker's Mammals of the World, vol. 1, 5th ed. 1629
• Original description: Kerr, R., 1792.  The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus. Class I. Mammalia, p.193.   London, 651 pp.
• Reid, F.. 1997. A FIELD GUIDE TO THE MAMMALS OF CENTRAL AMERICA & SOUTHEAST MEXICO. Oxford University Press, New York. 334 p.
• Richard Weigl (2005) Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World. Kleine Senckenberg-Reihe 48: Stuttgart.
• Timm, R., D. E. Wilson, B.Clauson, R. LaVal & C. Vaughan. 1989. Mammals of the La Selva-Braulio Carrillo complex, Costa Rica. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S.A.. North American Fauna 75. 162 p..
• Wilson, D., S. Ruff. 1999. The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press.
• Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds.). 1993. Mammals Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Second Edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. 1.206 p.
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 2005. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142