MCZ Special Collections 1053

Didelphis virginiana Kerr, 1792

Date Collected:

1903-03-01/1903-03-31

[no higher geography data] | [no specific locality data]

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:SC:1053

Collection: Special Collections
Catalog Number: 1053
GUID: MCZ:SC:1053

Current Identification

Didelphis virginiana Kerr, 1792

Animalia Chordata Vertebrata Tetrapoda Mammalia Didelphimorphia Didelphidae

Common Name(s): Tlacuache norteño; Virginia Opossum; opossum d'Amérique

Determiner: [no agent data]

Nature of ID: legacy

Remarks: Opossum

Minot 1905, page 514, Figured of Didelphis virginiana Kerr, 1792 Front.

McClure 1906, page 165, Figured of Didelphis Linnaeus, 1758 Trans., Plate IV Fig. 49 (Sec. 244), Fig. 50 (Sec. 214), Fig. 51 (Sec. 199), Fig. 52 (Sec. 197),

Media type: text; Minot 1905 Description: Link to Article - gov. access;

(Media Record) (Related) (File)

Shows Publication: Minot 1905 Description: Link to Article - gov. access

other number: 1610
previous number: HEC-617

Part	Condition	Disposition	Count
histological serial section (histological slide)	fair	on loan	22	History (4)
Remarks: Series A-V; stain very faded, blurred text, V coverslip chipped. Accompanied by slip of paper reading "Cover glass broken slightly Slide T Series 617 2nd Section H.E.C. Jan 24th."
section fixation = Parker's fluid section plane = frontal section stain = Alum cochineal, Mallory's triple connective tissue stain section thickness = 10 microns

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See 921, 922, 923.; Series A-V; stain very faded, blurred text, V coverslip chipped. Accompanied by slip of paper reading 'Cover glass broken slightly Slide T Series 617 2nd Section H.E.C. Jan 24th.'