Hooded red-sided opossum vs Tickclover

Monodelphis palliolata compared with Desmodium incanum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Hooded red-sided opossum	Tickclover
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Didelphidae	Fabaceae
Genus	Monodelphis	Desmodium
Species	Monodelphis palliolata	Desmodium incanum

Conservation Status

Hooded red-sided opossum

LC — Least Concern

Tickclover

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Hooded red-sided opossum	Tickclover
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Hooded red-sided opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia and Venezuela.

Tickclover

Habitat

Inhabits flooded grasslands and savannas within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (10 countries), Asia (Japan), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (12 countries), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).