four-eyed opossum

noun

1. a small opossum, Metachirops ( Philander ) opossum, ranging from Mexico to Brazil, having a white spot above each eye.

Example Sentences

In Tamaulipas, the four-eyed opossum is seemingly common at relatively low elevations in the Tropical Deciduous Forest along the eastern side of the Sierra Madre Oriental, but the species is not restricted to this area as one specimen is available from a place seven kilometers southwest of La Purisima, in the drier forest of west-central Tamaulipas.

From Project Gutenberg

The four-eyed opossum evidently ranges northward along the east face of the Sierra Madre Oriental within the humid division of the Upper Tropical Life-zone.

From Project Gutenberg