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The list was promoted by Giants2008 via FACBot (talk) 00:27, 22 August 2022 (UTC).

List of didelphimorphs

 * Nominator(s):  Pres N  17:55, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Here is number 20 in our perpetual journey of animal list FLCs (3 lists for Lagomorpha, 10 for Carnivora, 4 for Artiodactyla, 1 for Perissodactyla, and 1 for Cingulata), with another in a series of single-list orders. We continue from the other open FLC for the order Cingulata (armadillos) to here with the 129 species of Didelphimorphia, aka opossums. These animals come in a fairly wide variety of shapes and sizes, though they're all long-tailed marsupials who mostly eat fruit and insects. This order has a lot of similarities to Cingulata, in that it has a single species—the Virginia opossum—up in North America (where I'm from), but a ton down in Mexico and South America. Also like that order, there's been a bunch of research in the past couple of decades, resulting in species being split into multiples and new subfamilies created where opossums that looked similar turned out to be very different on a genetic level, but this list is up to date on the latest research. As always, this list should reflect comments from prior FLCs. Thanks for reviewing! -- Pres N  17:55, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * Is the diet of the Peruvian opossum unknown? If so, it might be worth specifically writing that so it doesn't just look like it's been missed
 * Under the Junin slender opossum, you have "Size: 9–11 cm (4–4 in) long", which looks a bit odd. I presume this is due to a template, but is there any way to get round it?
 * That's all I got! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:16, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Fixed both, as well as a few others that had 4-4 in. Thanks for reviewing! -- Pres N  21:05, 29 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 06:07, 30 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Wow I had no idea there were so many opossums, lots of cute ones! Same quality as your others and I couldn't find any issues. Support Reywas92Talk 19:15, 12 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Comments from Z1720


 * Should the "Classification" section have citations? It's not part of the lede, so is this information verified elsewhere in the article?
 * No prose concerns in the lede
 * Image check:
 * DidelphysWaterhousiiWolf.jpg, Monodelphis dimidiata.jpg need a US public domain tag
 * ALT tex is included in all images
 * Source check: Version reviewed
 * Pass, no concerns.
 * Spot checked: ref 3, 37, 134 (passed)
 * I'm not sure what ref 1 is verifying? Can someone direct me to where it verifies "Over one hundred extinct Didelphimorph species have been discovered, though due to ongoing research and discoveries the exact number and categorization is not fixed."?

Please ping when the above are addressed. Z1720 (talk) 14:21, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Citations added to "Classification", image tags updated. Ref 1: Unfortunately, there is generally no good single-page reference for prehistoric species in a given order, so instead we rely on citing a multi-page database. In this case, you can verify that there are 100+ species underneath Didelphimorphia by counting the species listed in the "subtaxa" links (and their subtaxa links, and so on). Unfortunately, the "View classification" link just gives you "A full classification of the subtaxa is too large to display here", so we're left with a more obnoxious method. -- Pres N  16:55, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Support That's extremely annoying about ref 1, but it is what it is. Image copyright banners are added, Classification section now has citations. All of my concerns are addressed. Z1720 (talk) 17:53, 1 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Source review – All of the sources appear to be reliable and well-formatted, and no issues were identified by the link-checker tool. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 21:27, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

Giants2008 ( Talk ) 22:07, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
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