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Hand-colored steel engraving showing a mouse opossum (Marmosa murina) seen from the side, carrying her litter on her back. Linnaeus’s mouse opossum is a marsupial in the family Didelphidae, native to South America.

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Hand-colored steel engraving showing a mouse opossum (Marmosa murina) seen from the side, carrying her litter on her back. Linnaeus’s mouse opossum is a marsupial in the family Didelphidae, native to South America.
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Old Book Illustrations (oldbookillustrations@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 05:33:51 JST Old Book Illustrations

Linnaeus's mouse opossum.
Édouard Traviès, from "Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle," atlas, vol. 1 by Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny, Paris: 1849 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/marmosa-murina/

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