Long-nosed Shrew Opossum
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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Long-nosed Shrew Opossum | status = Conservation status: Vulnerable | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Mammalia | subclassis = Marsupialia | ordo = Paucituberculata | familia = Caenolestidae | genus = Rhyncholestes | species = R. raphanurus | binomial = Rhyncholestes raphanurus | binomial_authority = Osgood, 1924 | subdivision_ranks = Subspecies | subdivision =
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The Long-nosed Shrew Opossum (Rhyncholestes raphanurus) is one of six surviving species of shrew opossum. It is a small marsupial that lives in old growth evergreen temperate forests in Chile and Argentina. It is somewhat unique among shrew opossums and, as such, is the only species in its genus, Rhyncholestes.
It is an endangered species included in the Red List of threatened species.